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11 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services

ChatGPT for Financial Services is now available to eligible institutions, combining GPT-6 Astra with premium financial data and firm templates.

10 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

OpenAI launches GPT-Live-1 for full-duplex voice agents

GPT-Live-1 is now available in the OpenAI API at $0.05 per minute, adding full-duplex speech, interruption handling, and 12 voice options.

9 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

Inception launches Mercury 2.5 at 1,107 tokens per second

Mercury 2.5 is now available through Inception, Baseten, and OpenRouter, with Mercury Voice and Mercury Router entering preview.

9 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5 with faster editing

ChatGPT Images 2.5 is rolling out to all tiers with Sketch, templates, image comments, shared prompts, and up to 50% lower generation latency.

9 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

Meta introduces Muse as a proactive personal agent

Meta’s Muse now works on scheduled and event-driven tasks in the background, with persistent memory, Goals, Artifacts, and approval cards.

7 Sep 2026 · 4 min read

Meta's Muse agent enters closed beta with invite codes

Meta is adding user-distributed invite codes for Muse as the agent moves from internal testing to a limited closed alpha on mobile and web.

4 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra across ChatGPT and API

GPT-6 Astra is rolling out to ChatGPT paid plans and major cloud APIs with faster computer use, new Codex context memory and stronger safeguards.

3 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash Cyber

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash for coding and agents, while Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber is restricted to vulnerability discovery and automated patching.

3 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

ICYMI: OpenAI's Astra crosses Critical cybersecurity threshold

OpenAI says Astra is its first model to reach the Critical cybersecurity threshold, with limited alpha access planned before wider Daybreak Blue use.

1 Sep 2026 · 2 min read

Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1

Fable 5.1 is now broadly available with 75% cheaper cache reads, while Mythos 5.1 is limited to vetted cyber and life-science users.

29 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

Tencent released open-source Hy4 preview model

Hy4 preview is now open-source and available via Tencent Cloud, OpenRouter, Tencent products and public repositories.

26 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

Z.ai launches GLM-5.3-Flash under MIT license

GLM-5.3-Flash is now live for all GLM Coding Plan users, bringing native multimodal reasoning, open weights and three times the GLM-5.3 quota.

26 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

Claude unifies memory across Chat and Cowork

Claude Cowork now uses the same memory as Chat, updating topics during conversations across Free, Pro and Max plans.

25 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

Antigravity 2.0 adds new VCS controls and a terminal

Antigravity 2.0 adds VCS-grounded views for agent, workspace, and branch changes, plus staging, commit tools, and an embedded terminal.

25 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

ICYMI: SpaceXAI plans NVIDIA Vera deployment for Starmind

SpaceXAI plans to deploy NVIDIA Vera CPUs for Grok and adapt Vera Rubin NVL72 for its first-generation Starmind AI satellite.

18 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

Cursor begins Origin code hosting rollout for paid plans

Cursor began rolling out Origin, built-in code hosting with repositories, pull requests, GitHub sync, and agents, to paid users in early beta.

13 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

Google launches Sheets canvas for Gemini mini-apps

Sheets canvas is available to Google AI Pro and Ultra users and rolling out to eligible Workspace plans for prompt-built spreadsheet mini-apps.

13 Aug 2026 · 2 min read

Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash for coding and AI agents

Gemini 3.7 Flash is now available in Google AI Studio, Android Studio and enterprise tools, while Gemini Spark begins using the model.