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Introducing Muse Glimmer

Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old). They claim to have optimized it…

What building an AI-native finance function taught me

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar shares five lessons for building an AI-native finance function, from automated forecasting to stronger controls and AI ROI.

Build Low-Latency Multilingual Voice Agents: Open Weights & Full Deployment Control with NVIDIA Magpie TTS

OpenAI’s letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas

OpenAI sent Governor Greg Abbott a letter outlining its commitment to responsible AI infrastructure in Texas. The letter supports reliable, transparent growth that benefits Texans.

langchain-ai/langchain: langchain-openai==1.4.3

Changes since langchain-openai==1.4.2 release(openai): 1.4.3 (#39485) fix(openai): filter invalid tool calls from content (#39366) chore(openai): update guidance for responses API for OpenAI-compatible providers…

Model ML completes finance work more efficiently with GPT-5.6 Sol

Model ML uses GPT-5.6 Sol to carry finance work from research and analysis through editable, traceable PowerPoint decks and Excel workbooks.

Making Knowledge Distillation Cheap Enough to Run at Scale

Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows

Meet GPT-5.6-Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity-specific model available through Daybreak Red for authorized vulnerability research, exploit validation, and security testing.

Putting frontier cyber models in more trusted hands

Approved Daybreak partners can use OpenAI’s frontier cyber models to deliver authorized, governed cybersecurity services to customers.

Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6)

The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you've moved from #4 to #3 already. — OpenClaw…

How Zapier transformed core marketing processes with ChatGPT Work

The enterprise marketing team at Zapier uses ChatGPT Work to reduce the number of drop-offs in its lead funnel, build campaign assets, and automate reporting.

Virgin Atlantic sharpens customer journeys with ChatGPT Work

Virgin Atlantic is accelerating research, product planning, and decision-making with ChatGPT Work, helping teams connect signals across the customer journey.

Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business

Premium seats are coming to ChatGPT Business. Sign up by August 20 to get $100 in workspace credits and unlock higher usage for your team's most demanding work.

Meta is back with Muse Glimmer: local, agentic, multimodal, and open source

AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I headed 30 miles south of San Francisco to a hotel in Mountain View,…

Import AI 468: 23 RSI ideas; PostTrainBench+; and how trust and transparency interplay with AI racing

Which galaxy will you choose?

AI for science needs reasoning, not just data

Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “facts of physical science have all been discovered.” In the 1980s, Stephen Hawking…

These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Way back in the summer of 2017, AI researchers at…

Prompt Caching Explained: Stop Overpaying for AI Agents

Prompt caching can cut the input cost of long AI agent sessions dramatically—but only when your harness preserves reusable prompt prefixes. This video explains what prompt caching actually stores, why agent costs…