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OpenAI has reduced API prices for GPT-5.6 Sol, its frontier model for complex professional tasks. Developers now pay $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens for standard requests. The new rates replace the previous prices of $5 for input and $30 for output. That amounts to a 20% reduction for input …
An anonymous AI model called Ox Alpha has appeared on OpenRouter and OpenCode with unusually high free usage limits, including a one-million-token multimodal context window. Rohail Saleem reports for Wccftech that the service claims it can process up to 100 trillion tokens per day for one week without charge. Ox Alpha is presented as a …
OpenAI has added an Apple Messages plugin to the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS. It lets users search and read conversations, draft replies, and send messages through Apple’s Messages app. Zac Hall reports for 9to5Mac that the feature supports iMessage, SMS, and RCS conversations. It is available across ChatGPT plans, but only on Apple silicon …
Meta has released a dedicated Mac app for Meta AI, extending its chatbot from the web and mobile devices to Apple’s desktop platform. Emma Roth reports for The Verge that the app can view a shared application window and users can ask questions, receive suggestions, or generate content related to their current work. The Mac …
Alibaba has released Qwen3.8-27B, an open-weight AI model designed to handle coding, reasoning, images and video on local machines. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the 27-billion-parameter model is available under the Apache 2.0 licence, allowing companies and developers to download, adapt and host it themselves. The release has attracted attention because of its balance …
Netlify’s comparison of 11 AI models shows that the cost of generating a simple website can vary dramatically, while the visible quality does not always rise in step with spending. Elad Rosenheim writes for Netlify that the company tested models with the same prompt to help users weigh output quality against the credits consumed by …
Anthropic has introduced cross-session messaging for Claude Code, allowing separate AI coding sessions on the same computer to exchange short updates, findings and requests while work is in progress. The feature is available from Claude Code version 2.1.224 on macOS and Linux. It is designed for people running several sessions in parallel, for example on …
Mistral has introduced Mistral OCR 4.1, a public preview service designed to turn documents into machine-readable content while retaining information about their layout. The company announces in Mistral Docs that the model can identify paragraphs, assign labels to structural blocks and return confidence scores for each block. The model, called mistral-ocr-4-1, is part of Mistral’s …
Microsoft is beginning to merge its consumer Copilot app and Microsoft 365 Copilot into a single application called Microsoft Copilot. Todd Bishop reports for GeekWire that the move starts with selected Windows Insiders and will expand to mobile and web users in mid-August, followed by Windows and Mac desktop apps in mid-September. The company presents …
OpenAI is rolling out Computer History, an opt-in macOS feature that lets ChatGPT Work and Codex use recent computer activity as context. Frederic Lardinois reports for The New Stack that the feature is available to Pro, Business and Enterprise customers, with access in the EEA, UK and Switzerland due in the coming weeks. Computer History …