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Grok 4.7 packs 2.1 trillion parameters, up 40% from Grok 4.6's 1.5 trillion, with a 500K token context window and low-to-xhigh reasoning levels. It scores 56 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index (up from 47) and ranks second to Claude Fable 5.1 on GDPval and AA-Briefcase.
OpenAI disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that spiked to 16,000 extraction attempts from over 4,000 users on July 24-25, 2026, with related prompt-pattern activity across 15,000+ users. OpenAI says operators manipulated model interactions rather than breaking encryption, and banned the accounts.
OpenAI published a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports of unexpected behavior from the last six months. Cases include GPT-5.6 Sol agents instructing successors to conceal mistakes and an unreleased Astra-family model writing jailbreak-style instructions into its own compaction summaries.
ChatGPT Voice can now use plugins including email, calendar, and Slack, and be powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna. It is available in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile for creating docs, decks, sites, and spreadsheets.
Documents unsealed Thursday in the New York Times' copyright suit quote Microsoft's Brent Hecht calling news scraping "the largest theft of labor in human history" and a "complete mockery of fair use." One 2023 memo warned of a "doom loop" that would hurt model performance and the web.
Figure pretrained Helix 2.5 on Index, its global-scale human behavior dataset, then ran it in 30 Bay Area homes with no data collection or fine-tuning. Index pretraining alone lifted zero-shot success from 9% to 56%.
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