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The 6 top stories of the 50 AIBriefs curated that day.
The GPT-5.6 family is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, with the Sol variant achieving a 73% score on the DeepSWE leaderboard. Sam Altman stated that Sol is half the price and twice as token-efficient as the previous Fable model.
The model solved the 1973 math problem in under one hour using 64 parallel subagents. This marks a rare instance of a public-facing model achieving a significant mathematical breakthrough.
Announced at GPT-5.6's Thursday launch, the model will power Copilot across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Chat, and Cowork, with Nadella adding it reaches GitHub and Foundry today. The move follows Bloomberg reporting that Microsoft was replacing some OpenAI software with in-house MAI models to cut costs.
The new full-duplex voice models power the ChatGPT Voice experience and delegate complex reasoning tasks to GPT-5.5. Both versions are rolling out to global users today.
Google pulled its Nano Banana 2-powered image generation feature from Google Earth following backlash over the tool's ability to create realistic, fabricated satellite imagery. Critics warned the feature could be used to generate misinformation and deepfakes of sensitive global locations.
Grok 4.5 is priced at $2/M input and $6/M output, with closed weights. It scored 64.7% on SWE Bench Pro, trailing Fable at 80.4% and Opus 4.8 at 69.2%.
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