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Today in brief.
GPT-6 Sol and Luna ship at half the API price
OpenAI drops Sol and Luna into the GPT-6 family: more intelligence and computer use than the 5.6 line, at 50% lower API prices, already live in ChatGPT Work, Codex, API, and Perplexity.
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🤖 AI
Claude Opus 5.5 hits Fable level and costs 40% less
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5.5 today: Fable-class work quality, about 40% cheaper than Opus 5, tighter cybersecurity safeguards, and instant distribution as Perplexity Computer's Standard orchestrator.
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🏛️ Policy
OpenAI deepens third-party assessor access
As part of pacing the frontier, OpenAI commits to independent assessments with deep access across training, evaluation, and deployment, and Altman argues outsiders need a real say plus open-model room to compete.
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🔬 Science
AstroForge puts AI in command of its next spacecraft
Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge is handing real command authority to AI on its next mission, a crisp embodied bet that autonomy belongs off-world too.
💼 Business
a16z opens the Horowitz Andreessen Academy
Andreessen Horowitz incubates a Fall 2027 San Francisco academy with no homework, AI-hard problems, and partners spanning Anduril, Anthropic, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, and more.
💼 Business
Runway DIFFUSE hires AI-native creative talent
Runway launches DIFFUSE, a marketplace where agencies, brands, and studios search, connect, and hire AI-native creators instead of treating gen tools as a staffing threat.
🏛️ Policy
Young users ditch Google and trust AI for facts
A Norwegian study says ages 9 to 18 are leaving Google for AI answers, and a Sky report finds nearly half of young people trust AI over a human for fact-checking.
🤖 AI
Rabbit's AI agent no longer needs the R1 gadget
Rabbit ships an OS3-style agent that runs without the R1 hardware, turning a device bet into a software agent you can actually try today.
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