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OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 prices up to 80 percent as the inference cost war intensifies
OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna by 80 percent and Terra by 20 percent, crediting GPU kernel gains and a 15 percent jump in token efficiency rather than weaker demand. The move follows Moonshot open weight Kimi K3 and signals a widening price war that keeps pushing enterprise inference costs down.
read →Two Research Teams Use GPT-5.6 Sol to Crack the Same Quantum Cryptography Problem and File Papers Three Hours Apart
An MIT doctoral student and two University of California researchers independently used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra to resolve a six-year-old open problem in unclonable encryption, both prompted by the same conference talk. Their preprints landed on arXiv just three hours apart, raising unresolved questions about how academic attribution should work when AI sharply compresses discovery timelines.
read →Threat Actor Uses DeepSeek and Hermes Agent to Run a 460-Target Autonomous Cyberattack Campaign
A China-based operator chained DeepSeek with the open-source Hermes Agent framework to autonomously identify vulnerabilities, select targets, download exploits, and launch attacks against more than 460 servers, compressing hundreds of hours of manual reconnaissance into minutes. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 confirmed three successful compromises via a Citrix NetScaler vulnerability and flagged it as the first publicly documented LLM-driven end-to-end offensive operation.
read →Goldman Sachs Asset Management launches AlphaAI to drive investing across public and private markets
Goldman Sachs Asset Management unveiled AlphaAI, a proprietary platform that embeds AI across its public and private market investing to process more data and sharpen portfolio decisions. Lou DAmbrosio will chair the effort as the bank positions itself at every stage of the AI investment cycle.
read →Apple posts a record June quarter and confirms a Gemini powered Siri this fall
Apple reported a record 109.4 billion dollar June quarter with iPhone revenue up 22 percent, and confirmed its long delayed AI Siri will ship this fall built on Google Gemini. It was Tim Cook final earnings call before John Ternus takes over on September 1.
read →Scale AI names former Google Cloud executive Francis DeSouza as CEO
Scale AI appointed Francis DeSouza, a 30-year enterprise software veteran and former Google Cloud executive, as CEO effective August 10. The move deepens Scale pivot from data labeling toward enterprise and government AI after founder Alexandr Wang left for Meta.
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Caylent builds its own agent orchestrator and cuts a 2,600-hour migration to 220
Instead of buying a migration tool, Caylent built a multi-agent orchestrator on the Claude Agent SDK that runs inside the customer's own cloud and cut one engagement from 2,600 engineering hours to about 220.
Eve makes the buy-a-vertical-vendor case for small plaintiff law firms
Plaintiff firms with no in-house ML team buy their agents off the shelf, and Eve customers report large jumps in lead conversion, case value, and drafting speed.
Suzano puts a natural-language-to-SQL agent in front of 50,000 staff
A Brazilian pulp-and-paper maker built a Gemini agent that turns plain-language questions into SQL, which Google Cloud says cut query time by about 95 percent for 50,000 employees.
03 / Latest project
MomMe, a lifestyle community, web & iOS
A full lifestyle community platform, web portal and native iOS app, taken end to end, with an AI moderation flow keeping the community safe at scale.
- MomMe web portal + iOS application
- Full lifestyle community with 3,000+ registered users
- AI moderation flow
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