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Governments and OpenAI push independent frontier-AI assessment while common rules remain unsettled

Leaders and senior officials from 20 countries plus the European Commission have called for mandatory pre-deployment testing, independent evaluation and shared reporting of serious frontier-AI incidents. OpenAI has separately committed to deep-access third-party assessments, and Sam Altman told the UN Security Council that labs should not train systems without a strong case for human control while urging common incident-reporting and vulnerability-sharing standards. None of these tracks creates an adopted common standard or binding international verification regime.

European Commission Audiovisual Service — State of the European Union 2026 · Reuters — EU to invite frontier labs for AI-risk talks
AI · Articlepublished 2d

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 at $4/$20 with cheaper cache reads

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5.5 across paid Claude plans and its developer platform at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, with cache reads cut to $0.20 per million. GitHub is also rolling the model into Copilot, while Anthropic’s performance and efficiency comparisons remain largely vendor-run measurements.

AI · Articlepublished 2d

OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna with lower API prices and new cache controls

OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna across ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API, cutting Sol to $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens and Luna to $0.10 and $0.50. GPT-6 also adds explicit prompt-cache breakpoints, diagnostics and prewarming; Tibo Thsottiaux separately says a banked Codex reset is still being loaded into Plus, Pro and Business accounts.

AI · Articlepublished 3d

Xiaomi publishes MiMo-V2.6 Pro, Flash and 9B checkpoints after live RL run

Xiaomi has turned its public MiMo-V2.6 reinforcement-learning run into downloadable Pro-RL and Flash-RL checkpoints plus a 9B Qwen distill. The flagship Pro is a sparse 1.02T-parameter model with 42B activated parameters, while Flash uses 309B total and 15B activated; both advertise 1M-token context and text, image, video and audio input under an MIT licence.

Xiaomi MiMo — live V2.6 RL dashboard · Fuli Luo (@_LuoFuli) — MiMo-V2.6 RL run
AI · Articlepublished 7d

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash targets long-context serving with smaller KV caches

DeepSeek says V4.1 Flash is a 552B-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model that activates 8B parameters on input and 16B on output, while cutting KV-cache HBM demand to one quarter and SSD storage to one eighth of the previous generation. The model is live through the DeepSeek API; the architecture and performance claims remain vendor-reported.

DeepSeek — Introducing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash · DeepSeek API change log
AI · Articlepublished 8d

Google ships Gemini 3.8 Live with background tool calls during voice conversations

Google has released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking through the Live API and Google AI Studio, adding asynchronous tool calls that can run while a voice conversation continues. Google prices audio input at $0.005 per minute and output at $0.018 per minute, while long persistent sessions can become more expensive because active context is reprocessed across turns.

AI · Articlepublished 8d

Z.ai says GLM-5.3-Flash runs entirely on 100,000-plus Chinese accelerators

Z.ai says all production inference for GLM-5.3-Flash now runs on a cluster of more than 100,000 Chinese-made AI accelerators using an inference stack it built around the hardware's memory, bandwidth and software constraints. The company reports roughly a threefold end-to-end performance improvement, but it has not identified the accelerator vendor or published independent throughput, latency or power measurements.

Z.ai — How GLM built its own inference infrastructure · Hacker News — Z.ai inference infrastructure discussion