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AI & Automation

7/30/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra prices after efficiency gains

OpenAI lowered GPT-5.6 Luna API prices by 80% and Terra prices by 20%, while replacing Priority Processing with a faster Sol API mode.

AI & Automation

7/27/2026 5 min

@ZachasADMIN

Microsoft posts open-weight AI letter backed by OpenAI, Google, and NVIDIA

Microsoft published an open-weight AI policy letter now signed by OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Meta, Hugging Face, OpenClaw, Vercel, and dozens of other organizations as Washington debates how far to restrict downloadable models.

AI & Automation

7/26/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

Microsoft previews MAI image and voice models in Foundry

Microsoft AI has put MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash into public preview, giving Foundry builders new first-party options for high-fidelity image work and lower-cost voice generation.

AI & Automation

7/25/2026 4 min

@ZachasADMIN

GitHub MCP Server adds stateless support for the July 28 MCP spec

GitHub has updated its MCP Server for the July 28, 2026 Model Context Protocol release, giving agent-tooling teams an early production signal for the new stateless core, extensions, and conformance-test path.

AI & Automation

7/25/2026 5 min

@ZachasADMIN

NVIDIA opens Medical Physics Simulation for healthcare robotics

NVIDIA has open sourced a GPU-accelerated Medical Physics Simulation framework inside Isaac for Healthcare, pairing classical physics with Cosmos-H Dreams for surgical robotics training and evaluation.

AI & Automation

7/25/2026 5 min

@ZachasADMIN

MiniMax releases M3 with 1M context and native multimodal input

MiniMax has released M3, a 428B-parameter open-weight model that combines a 1M-token context window, native text-image-video input, and agent-focused coding benchmarks.

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