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AI & Automation
9/9/2026 3 min

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5 with two API-ready variants

OpenAI has announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 for more polished image creation and editing. Vercel independently lists two OpenAI variants for AI Gateway, giving developers concrete model IDs for faster iteration or tighter composition control.

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AI & Automation
9/9/2026 4 min

IBM releases PatchTST-FM-r2 for open zero-shot forecasting

IBM's Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 brings open weights, probabilistic forecasts, and a commercial-friendly dual license to zero-shot time-series forecasting.

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AI & Automation
9/8/2026 4 min

Inception’s Mercury 2.5 brings diffusion LLMs to 1,100 tokens/s

Inception’s Mercury 2.5 preview uses diffusion-based generation, offers a 260K context window and tool calling, and is listed on OpenRouter at $0.20 per million input tokens and $0.75 per million output tokens.

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AI & Automation
9/8/2026 3 min

OpenAI claims an AI-generated solution to Navier–Stokes

OpenAI says an internal model produced a finite-time singularity proof for the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize problem, with a Lean formalization released for inspection.

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Tools & Apps
9/8/2026 3 min

Cloudflare moves Next.js RCE defenses into baseline WAF rules

Cloudflare has promoted two Next.js remote-code-execution detections from beta into baseline managed WAF signatures. The change strengthens edge coverage, but teams still need to patch affected Next.js deployments.

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AI & Automation
9/8/2026 3 min

GPT-6 Astra reaches GitHub Copilot for long-horizon coding

GitHub has made OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra generally available in Copilot, with gradual rollout across paid plans and usage-based provider pricing.

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