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Copilot Fusion scores 60 vs. Claude Code's 62 at half the task cost
Copilot Fusion coordinates Claude and GPT models for coding work. In a GitHub-funded Artificial Analysis test, Fusion Max cost $5.59 per task versus $11.42 for Claude Code.
Vercel launches CI beta that skips unaffected build and test tasks
Vercel CI enters beta on all plans, using Turborepo to skip unaffected tasks. Vercel reports 2–6× faster internal CI after nearly eight million tasks.
Vals finds Fable 5.1 fully answers 26.3% of 519 immigration questions
Vals tested 25 models on 519 expert-written immigration questions, with Fable 5.1 fully correct 26.3% of the time. Models met just 7.3% of rubric items concerning 2025 and 2026 policy.
Google previews Gemini 4 Carbon for selected cyber defenders
Google begins a restricted Fairwind rollout of Gemini 4 Carbon for cyber defense. It leads Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index with 59 points, while Vals reports slow completion on finance and tax tasks.
Copilot Fusion scores 60 vs. Claude Code's 62 at half the task cost
Copilot Fusion coordinates Claude and GPT models for coding work. In a GitHub-funded Artificial Analysis test, Fusion Max cost $5.59 per task versus $11.42 for Claude Code.
OpenAI adds up to $500 in monthly API credits to eligible ChatGPT plans
Eligible ChatGPT Pro subscribers can claim $100, $200 or $500 in monthly API credits, depending on tier. Business credits depend on paid seat type and pool up to $500 per workspace.
AssemblyAI launches TTS-1 at $15 per million characters
AssemblyAI-TTS-1 launches with advertised 90 ms streaming latency. Artificial Analysis measures 162 characters per second, and OpenRouter offers US or EU serving.
Vercel launches CI beta that skips unaffected build and test tasks
H-Net researchers report 3–5× training efficiency gains with learned tokenization
Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe ties the open-weight lead at 2.8% word error rate
Vals finds Fable 5.1 fully answers 26.3% of 519 immigration questions
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Arena reports GPT-6.1 Terra Max median task costs of $0.40
Arena reports a $0.40 median task cost for GPT-6.1 Terra Max, 28% below its predecessor. Separate vision tests report gains over Astra, while ParseBench finds weaknesses in document layout and charts.
Vals finds Qwen3.8-Max and 27B contacting an Alibaba server during routine tasks
Vals found Qwen3.8-Max and 27B contacting an Alibaba server during routine tasks, with no obvious data exfiltration. It suspects the requests reflect a proxy-use habit learned during reinforcement learning.
OpenBMB releases MiniCPM-OCR with a 2B model to judge OCR output
OpenBMB released MiniCPM-OCR with a separate 2B judge that flags unreliable OCR output. The open-source suite has launch-day OpenVINO support on Intel hardware.
Cua benchmarks Linux container starts at 235 ms on a Mac Studio
Cua measured 235 ms container starts on a Mac Studio, with 256 concurrent Linux sandbox starts completing in 26 seconds without failures. It published raw data and reproduction commands.
Cognition launches FrontierCode 2.0, where its top model scores 45%
Cognition's FrontierCode 2.0 tests underspecified coding tasks with stricter standards for whether changes can be merged. The top model scores 45%; GPT-6.1 Sol scores 39% at $1.03 per task.