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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

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

OpenAI launches Astra for Law with a 230 million-URL U.S. legal search index

OpenAI has launched Astra for Law, a GPT-6 Astra configuration with a dedicated U.S. legal search index, legal-analysis instructions and a plugin ecosystem. Access starts with selected U.S. law firms through Trusted Access in ChatGPT and Codex; the gpt-6-astra-law API is coming later, with no public pricing or launch date yet.

AI · Articlepublished 7d

OpenAI says $200 Pro renewals remain active as account-level failures persist

OpenAI's current Help Center says existing $200 Pro subscriptions remain unaffected by the new-signup pause and should continue to renew. In the Reddit thread that surfaced a contradictory support reply, a commenter self-identifying as an OpenAI product manager says the support message was wrong and that bugs are causing some surprise downgrades and blocked renewals; users report mixed recoveries while the fixes roll out.