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OpenAI Dots: The Agent That Already Knows You
OpenAI just shipped Dots — its answer to Grok Bot and Muse. On capability it isn't wildly differentiated. On memory it is: full access to your ChatGPT memories, plus the entire ChatGPT harness — voice mode, plugins, Spaces and Codex threads. The honest read after early access.
GPT-6.1 Sol and Everything Else OpenAI Shipped This Month
GPT-6.1 Sol quietly replaces the workhorse tier — better reasoning, 400K context, and a lower price …
Claude Opus 5.5 Is Now Available — Anthropic's Most Capable Opus, the New Enterprise Daily Driver
Opus 5.5 performs at the level of Claude Fable 5.1 on most work, costs 40% less to run than Opus 5, …
ChatGPT 6 Astra: OpenAI Declares the AGI Era — Everything You Need to Know
Greg Brockman says this is the AGI era. Astra was trained on 100,000 GPUs in Stargate, Texas, domina…
September 2026 AI News Round 1: Fable 5.1, Mythos 5.1, Qwen3.8-Max, OpenAI Astra, MiniMax-H3, Genjutsu, Gemini Agentic Video, OpenClaw v2026.8.2, Obsidian CLI, Hermes v0.21.0
Ten releases in one week. Anthropic made its strongest reasoning model economically viable for agent…
August 2026 AI News Round 1: Four Flagships in Sixteen Days, Every AI Gets an Employee ID
Grok 4.6, Gemini 3.7 Flash, GLM-5.3, and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 all shipped inside the same two weeks.…
July 2026 AI News Round 3: An AI Broke Out of Its Sandbox, Open Weights Hit 2.8 Trillion
OpenAI and Hugging Face jointly disclose an unprecedented security incident: a de-restricted evaluat…
July 2026 AI News Round 2: Three Labs in Four Days, Anthropic Blinks First
Grok 4.5 lands, GPT-5.6 goes fully public with a ChatGPT-Codex merger, and Anthropic extends Fable 5…
July 2026 AI News Round 1: Fable 5 Returns, GPT-5.6 Gated, Hermes v0.18.0
Claude Fable 5 returns after an 18-day export-control suspension, alongside cheaper Sonnet 5. OpenAI…
June 2026 AI News Round 2: Anthropic Blocked, GLM-5.2 Open Source, SpaceX Buys Cursor
The US blocked Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every foreign national worldwide — including GCC customers. …
Claude Fable 5: Anthropic's Most Powerful Model Is Now Public
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5 — the first publicly available Mythos-class model. 80.3% on SWE-Be…
June 2026 AI News Round 1: Claude Opus 4.8, Microsoft Scout, NVIDIA RTX Spark, MiniMax M3
Computex Week: Claude Opus 4.8 lands with Dynamic Workflows. Microsoft turns OpenClaw into Scout. NV…
May 2026 AI News Round 2: The Week AI Got Faster, Cheaper, and Started Hiring Its Own Researchers
A talent earthquake at Anthropic, Cursor undercuts the frontier by 10×, Google I/O turns Gemini into…