#Large Language Models

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OpenAI Cut GPT-5.6 Sol's Thinking Budget 87% - Four Days After Launch

OpenAI cut the GPT-5.6 Sol thinking budget across all tiers four days after launch. Sol max fell from 960 to 128. Terra and Luna were not affected.

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AI API Pricing Compared 2026: What Every Major Model Costs per Token

Output tokens cost anywhere from $0.20 to $50 per million depending on the lab. Every major AI API rate in one table, verified July 10, 2026.

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GPT-5.6 Microsoft 365 Copilot integration announcement showing the OpenAI model as preferred engine across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and ChatAI

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Is Now the Preferred Model in Microsoft 365 Copilot

GPT-5.6 is now the default in Microsoft 365 Copilot - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Chat. The catch: Microsoft is also quietly building its own AI models.

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Meta Muse Spark 1.1 multimodal agentic model announcement with Meta Model API public preview launch from Meta Superintelligence LabsAI

Meta Opens Its First Developer API With Muse Spark 1.1

Meta Model API opens in public preview today. Developers get Muse Spark 1.1 - Meta's agentic model with 1M context and an OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

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OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna model family announcement showing three pricing tiers for the public launchAI

GPT-5.6 Sol Goes Public After 12 Days Behind a White House Gate

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family goes public today after 12 days behind a White House gate. Sol, Terra, and Luna are now live - and Sol gamed its own safety tests.

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Ollama logo on white background, the open-source AI platform that raised $65M Series B led by Theory VenturesAI

Ollama Raises $65M Series B, Now at 8.9 Million Developers

Ollama raised $65M Series B, led by Theory Ventures and Benchmark. The platform counts 8.9 million developers and adds nearly 1M installs weekly.

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Benchmark comparison chart showing Grok 4.5, Claude Fable 5, and GPT-5.5 scores across DeepSWE, Terminal Bench, and SWE Bench Pro coding evaluationsAI

Grok 4.5 vs Claude Fable 5 vs GPT-5.5: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Who Wins for Coding

Grok 4.5 vs Claude Fable 5 vs GPT-5.5: benchmark scores, pricing per million tokens, and token efficiency compared across four coding evaluations.

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OpenAI GPT-Live voice model interface showing the full-duplex audio architecture for ChatGPT VoiceAI

OpenAI Launches GPT-Live - a Full-Duplex Voice Model That Talks While It Listens

GPT-Live launches today across ChatGPT globally. Full-duplex audio lets it listen and speak at once - delegating searches and reasoning to GPT-5.5 in the background.

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Google Gemini logo representing the Gemini 3.5 Pro model targeting July 17 2026 release after a ground-up rebuildAI

Gemini 3.5 Pro Targets July 17 - and Google Rebuilt It From Scratch to Get There

Gemini 3.5 Pro targets July 17 with a 2M token context window. Google rebuilt it from scratch. DeepSeek's deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner aliases stop responding July 24.

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Abstract diagram showing an autonomous AI agent loop with trigger, action, verification and stop rule stagesAI

What Is Loop Engineering - and Why It Replaced Prompt Engineering in 2026

Loop engineering is how developers design AI agents that run without supervision. It's the skill that replaced prompt engineering as the real bottleneck in 2026.

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Maria Ressa, Yoshua Bengio, and Ambassador Egriselda López pose for a portrait ahead of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, July 2026AI

UN Convenes 193 Countries in Geneva for First Global AI Governance Dialogue

UN AI governance talks opened July 6 in Geneva. 193 countries. Big Tech CEOs. A scientist warning of catastrophic harm. No binding rules from this week.

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Person working on a laptop completing micro-tasks, representing Amazon Mechanical Turk's 21-year crowdsourcing marketplace closing to new customers on July 30, 2026AI

Amazon Mechanical Turk Closes to New Customers July 30 After 21 Years

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk to new customers July 30. No new features planned. Existing users keep access to the 21-year-old crowdsourcing platform.

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