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Creative & Media
8/9/2026 5 min

ByteDance releases Seedance 2.5 for 30-second audio-video generation

ByteDance Seed has released Seedance 2.5, a video model built for 30-second audio-video clips, larger multimodal reference sets, and timestamp-level editing.

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Tools & Apps
8/9/2026 4 min

Kimi K3 reaches GitHub Copilot with admin-gated rollout

GitHub has started rolling out Moonshot AI’s open-weight Kimi K3 model in Copilot, with usage-based billing, broad client support, and a required admin policy for Business and Enterprise organizations.

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AI & Automation
8/9/2026 4 min

OpenAI’s Codex reset talk turns weekly usage percentages into a planning signal

A public reset hint from OpenAI’s Tibo Sottiaux has made weekly Codex and ChatGPT Work usage percentages a practical planning signal for builders.

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AI & Automation
8/8/2026 4 min

OpenAI pauses Astra work after critical cyber capability warning

OpenAI says it cannot rule out critical cybersecurity capabilities in Astra, an unreleased model, and has paused internal work that does not meet stricter safeguards.

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Tools & Apps
8/8/2026 3 min

Cloudflare merges Workers AI and AI Gateway billing into one control plane

Cloudflare is unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway so developers can call Cloudflare-hosted and third-party models through shared AI bindings, REST endpoints, observability, controls, and prepaid billing.

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AI & Automation
8/7/2026 5 min

OpenAI expands GPT-5.6 Luna to free ChatGPT text chats

OpenAI is moving Free and Go ChatGPT users to GPT-5.6 Luna with unlimited text chats next week, while Plus and Pro users get a retuned GPT-5.6 Sol and a new reasoning-effort slider.

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