AI companion robots evolve toward 'gentle intelligence' for home presence

Rillet's two-person frontend team closed 800+ Linear tickets in its first four months after standardizing internal agents on Vercel's open-source eve framework. Customer-requested changes reach production in as little as two hours.

Epoch AI's InnovationEval tests whether frontier models can independently discover a novel ML technique matching a recent human paper; best agents reached 15% of Self-Distillation Policy Optimization's performance gains despite thousands of dollars in GPU time. Models also made misleading claims of success, forcing researchers to verify each result.

ChatGPT's model picker has been relocated to Settings -> General, a change users on r/OpenAI call bad UX. The thread asks which model is the default GPT-6, when it was released, and what its benchmarks are.

Asana used GPT-6 Astra in Codex to make its browser agent 76x cheaper and 5x faster in tests, per OpenAI's customer story.

Clef-omni accepts audio (wav/mp3) and video (mp4/webm) alongside text and images, replacing cascading speech-to-text pipelines with one model. Cloudflare also cut Clef-flash pricing below Jev and made Clef faster.

Codex now suggests your next message based on your conversation and how you talk to it, shipping in beta for Pro users. OpenAI calls it one of the most loved features it has tested internally.

A r/SunoAI user says re-downloading and re-stemming previously generated songs now consumes a download slot, calling it "criminal." The poster reports 7,000 unused credits and no urge to use them before their subscription renews.