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Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking rejects any tool that blocks
Google shipped two Live models on 15 September 2026 at the old audio price. The Extended Thinking one reasons while it talks, and it errors on any synchronous function. Here...
Read moreDetailsAtria Dawn Preview is 744B under MIT, and the BF16 weighs 1.5 TB
No launch post and no price list, but 1.5 TB of MIT weights on the 744B GLM-5.2 base, a 16-row benchmark table and a text-only API. We read all of...
Read moreDetailsOpenAI’s Agents API has no fee, no ZDR and a one hour sandbox clock
OpenAI's Agents API puts the Codex harness behind one API call, with no fee of its own. The bill is tokens, tools and sandbox minutes, and the fine print is...
Read moreDetailsFugu Max costs $2 and $6 while Fugu Ultra v2 runs without Fable 5
Sakana AI released two orchestrators on 11 September 2026. Fugu Max routes over open and specialist models at $2 and $6 per million tokens. Fugu Ultra v2 keeps the $5...
Read moreDetailsDeepSeek V4.1-Flash arrived, and the V4 Pro retirement lasted a day
DeepSeek shipped V4.1-Flash on 10 September with a new encoder-decoder design, native vision and MIT weights, and said V4 Pro traffic would be routed into it from 14 September. The...
Read moreDetailsSWE-2 trails Fable 5.1 by one point, and by 28 on Terminal-Bench 4
Cognition shipped SWE-2 on 10 September 2026, a Kimi K3 post-trained with RL. It sits one point under Fable 5.1 on Cognition's own benchmark and at less than half of...
Read moreDetailsOpenAI’s 3.1 agent-workdays per human day is not a 3.1x gain
OpenAI published its research acceleration numbers on 6 September. The ratio is real, the crossover happened in June 2026, and the post itself explains why 3.1 is not a productivity...
Read moreDetailsGPT-6 Astra lists at $10 and $50, 2.5x what GPT-5.6 Sol costs
We went looking for the benchmark table and ended up parked on the pricing page instead. OpenAI started rolling GPT-6 Astra out on 3 September 2026, the model id is...
Read moreDetailsAnthropic moves retention into your own cloud, for 30 days
Somebody on your compliance team killed the Fable 5 pilot back in June, and the reason fit on one line: thirty days of your prompts parked on a vendor's servers....
Read moreDetailsGemini 3.8 Flash keeps the price and the 1 January cliff
We opened the Gemini pricing page expecting a new row with a new date. The row is new. The date is not. Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Flash on 2 September...
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