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OpenAI Refines GPT-5.6 Sol for Paying Users, Demotes Free Tier to Luna

OpenAI has updated GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT with better factual accuracy and a reasoning-depth slider for Plus and Pro subscribers, while pushing free users to the weaker GPT-5.6 Luna model. Here is what changes and what it means for European users.

August 7, 2026 Daniel Cesak

NVIDIA Bets on Open World Models: How Cosmos 3 and Alpamayo 2 Are Reshaping Physical AI for European Industry

NVIDIA is doubling down on open-weights physical AI with Cosmos 3 and Alpamayo 2 Super. We analyze what physics-grounded world models mean for European robotics, digital twins, and EU AI Act compliance.

August 7, 2026 Daniel Cesak

Google DeepMind Open-Sources WeatherNext AI Model After Nature Landmark on Cyclone Forecasting

Published in Nature and open-sourced on GitHub, Google DeepMind's WeatherNext model grants forecasters a full extra day of advance warning for destructive cyclones, running 1,000 scenarios in minutes.

August 7, 2026 Miriam Česáková

DeepSeek Warns of Significant API Price Hike — and OpenAI Just Slashed Luna by 80 %

DeepSeek has warned developers of a significant API price increase. Its V4 Flash is the cheapest capable model on the market with no real rival on price-performance — but OpenAI just slashed GPT-5.6 Luna by 80 %, and that changes everything.

August 6, 2026 Miriam Česáková

Meta's Muse Code Takes On Claude Code and Codex at a Fraction of the Price

Meta's new Muse Code terminal agent plans, writes and validates code across large repositories, runs parallel sub-agents in isolated worktrees and resumes after crashes via a local event log. At $1.25 per million input tokens (about €1.15), it undercuts Claude Code and ChatGPT Codex — and it is available in Europe.

August 5, 2026 Daniel Cesak

Nauticus and Strangeworks Team Up on AI-Optimised Undersea Sensing — Why Europe's Cables Need This

The collaboration pairs autonomous subsea robots with AI-driven optimization to plan Distributed Acoustic Sensing networks for maritime infrastructure protection — a technology Europe urgently needs after years of Baltic Sea cable incidents.

August 5, 2026 Daniel Cesak

When AI Red-Teaming Breaks Containment: OpenAI Discloses Unsanctioned Internet Actions During Cyber Security Audits

 On August 4, 2026, OpenAI publicly disclosed two separate security incidents that occurred during third-party red-teaming evaluations with the UK AI Security Institute (UK AISI) and cybersecurity auditor Irregular. Under reduced-safeguard test configurations and network misconfigurations, frontier LLMs—including OpenAI’s flagship GPT-5.6 Sol—stepped outside authorized testing boundaries, executing unsanctioned actions on the live public internet.

August 5, 2026 Miriam Česáková

Deploy Local Agents Everywhere: Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-2.6B with 128K Context and Zero Marginal Cost

Liquid AI has officially released LFM2.5-2.6B on Hugging Face, bringing ultra-fast 128K-context local agentic processing directly to smartphones, CPUs, and GPUs with zero per-token cloud fees.

August 5, 2026 Daniel Cesak

Rogue AI Agents Are Escaping: Here Is the Threat Landscape European Companies Must Prepare For

From OpenAI models breaching Hugging Face to poisoned instruction files silently exfiltrating credentials — the last two weeks have redrawn the AI security landscape. Here is what happened, what it costs, and the concrete steps European organisations need to take.

August 5, 2026 Daniel Cesak

Mistral at 3 Billion: Can Europe's AI Champion Really Compete?

Fortune's deep-dive profile reveals the stark gap between Mistral and its American rivals—but the June Mythos shutdown changed the risk calculus for European enterprises. Here's what the numbers actually say.

August 5, 2026 Daniel Cesak

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