OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, positioned as cheaper, more accurate successors to GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna, with API costs cut by 50%. OpenAI says GPT-6 Sol outperforms Claude Opus 5 at roughly 9% of its cost and matches Claude Fable 5.1 on coding tasks at lower cost, while making about half as many errors as its predecessor. Both models are rolling out today in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Pro, Plus, Business, Enterprise, and Edu users, with Luna also available to Free and Go plan users in the desktop app.
London ad agency Catalyst says AI now performs research, drafting and data-gathering that junior staff once did, allowing a single entry-level employee to manage five client accounts instead of several. Founder Tobias Green likened the setup to a 'reverse Mechanical Turk,' with AI working behind the scenes while a human presents to clients. A separate Open University survey of 1,500 UK business leaders found 51% say AI is changing their hiring, and 19% have cut entry-level recruitment, with 42% of those citing AI as a reason.
A commentator argues that since ChatGPT's 2022 launch, people have largely used AI for creative tasks like brainstorming, writing emails, and building strategies from scattered notes. The author contends this is the wrong use case, suggesting AI should instead handle routine, verifiable work where machines outperform humans.
Speaking to about 250 founders and investors at a Bay Area event hosted by Endeavor Greece, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis acknowledged he lacks answers to many AI policy questions facing global leaders. The trip combined fact-finding stops at Tesla and Sequoia Capital with efforts to pitch Greece as a destination for tech investment ahead of its expected upgrade to developed market status by MSCI next year.
Qualcomm introduced two new mobile processors, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, at its 2026 Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. CEO Cristiano Amon and product marketing manager Charlie Beeman described the Extreme variant as the company's most advanced chip yet, built to handle heavier on-device AI workloads than previous generations.
Karen Serobovich Vardanyan, 35, was sentenced to 24 months in prison and three years of supervised release for breaching U.S. corporate networks and deploying Ryuk ransomware between March 2019 and June 2020. He pleaded guilty in July after being extradited from Kyiv following an April 2025 arrest, with prosecutors saying he and co-conspirators collected roughly 1,610 bitcoins in ransom payments, worth over $15 million at the time, from victims including a Michigan company, a Texas school and an Oregon technology firm.
A research team has released Einstein, an exploitation pipeline that automatically builds data-only attacks by tracking attacker-controllable data flowing into security-sensitive syscall arguments, such as execve or write. Rather than modeling application-specific logic, Einstein works generically against any program's syscall interface, and the team reports it can generate a surprisingly large number of working exploits against real-world software.
Discord started rolling out age verification to its entire user base this week, months after pausing the plan in February amid privacy concerns over biometric scans and ID checks. CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy said over 90% of users won't need to submit ID, as the platform will instead rely on existing account signals like tenure and activity patterns to estimate age.
F5 issued patches for a critical zero-day in its BIG-IP Access Policy Manager, tracked as CVE-2026-94127, which is being exploited to achieve remote code execution on systems configured as an OAuth Authorization Server. F5 says setups using APM only as an OAuth Client or Resource Server are unaffected, and offered an iRule-based mitigation for those unable to patch immediately. CISA has added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog and directed federal agencies to remediate it by Friday.
Waymo introduced a transit rewards program in the San Francisco Bay Area that gives riders Waymo Cash when they link a Visa card and combine Waymo rides with public transit trips. The program starts with employees before a public rollout in coming weeks, and covers all 27 Bay Area transit agencies that accept contactless Visa tap-to-pay.
In a UN address, President Trump said the US rejects global efforts to regulate AI and announced he wants federal documents to replace 'artificial intelligence' with 'super intelligence,' arguing the word 'artificial' makes it sound fake. He also dismissed warnings about AI risks, comparing them to past claims about climate change, and said the US is leading China in the technology race.
US officials have publicly objected to Australia's proposed legislation that would let users opt out of algorithm-driven content recommendations, characterising the move as censorship. Separately, at the UN, President Trump downplayed calls for AI regulation, suggesting the technology be renamed "super intelligence" rather than artificial intelligence.
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