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Anthropic extends Fable 5 paid-plan access through July 19
Anthropic extended Fable 5 on paid plans and raised Claude Code weekly limits by 50% through July 19 while keeping the half-week cap. Users still described the rolling access changes as disruptive.
OpenAI reverts Codex GPT-5.6 Sol context limit to 272k after overcharging
OpenAI said GPT-5.6 Sol's 372k context in Codex charged more usage than intended, so it reverted Codex to 272k. It also removed a five-hour cap, reset some rates, and passed inference savings into more subscription usage.
ChatGPT Sites launches public beta for prompt-built apps
ChatGPT Sites entered public beta for building dashboards, trackers, reports, prototypes, and apps from prompts, files, or rough ideas. It includes preview, published URLs, admin controls, and built-in auth, while one user reported confusing deploy behavior.
Anthropic extends Fable 5 paid-plan access through July 19
Anthropic extended Fable 5 on paid plans and raised Claude Code weekly limits by 50% through July 19 while keeping the half-week cap. Users still described the rolling access changes as disruptive.
OpenAI reverts Codex GPT-5.6 Sol context limit to 272k after overcharging
OpenAI said GPT-5.6 Sol's 372k context in Codex charged more usage than intended, so it reverted Codex to 272k. It also removed a five-hour cap, reset some rates, and passed inference savings into more subscription usage.
vLLM v0.25.0 makes Model Runner V2 the default path for dense models
vLLM v0.25.0 made Model Runner V2 the standard dense-model execution path and removed legacy PagedAttention. The release also added parser, speculative decoding, distributed-serving, and security upgrades.
German consortium releases SOOFI base model trained on 27T tokens
A German consortium released the small SOOFI sovereign base model trained on 27T tokens. Analysts said it reuses Nemotron 3 Nano architecture and many hyperparameters with a changed data mix, and benchmarks drew criticism for overstating capability versus Qwen and Nemotron.
Red-teamers report GPT-5.6 Sol hallucinating text in scribble images
ChatGPT Sites launches public beta for prompt-built apps
Coding Agent Index ranks cheaper configs near the top
Researchers test J-space blocking with attention-gradient changes
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OpenAI shows ChatGPT Work using Codex harness for Gmail cleanup
OpenAI staff described Work using the Codex harness to inspect Gmail, confirm intent, and produce cleanup lists. The rollout also added in-app code editing and a PR tab, while users questioned how Work, Chat, and Codex differ.
Devin exposes Fusion router with claimed 35% lower frontier-model cost
Devin exposed routers such as Fusion, claiming frontier performance at 35% lower cost, while Databricks argued for smart routing in agent harnesses. New charts put Grok 4.5 and Muse Spark 1.1 near the coding-cost frontier.
Developers tighten coding-agent approvals after GPT-5.6 Sol deletion reports
Developers warned against running coding agents without approvals, sandboxes, hooks, or backups after reports of GPT-5.6 Sol deleting files. AgentSweep also shipped a CLI that redacts secrets from agent history files.
LingBot 2.0 releases open weights for robot-action and world models
LingBot 2.0 released code and weights for a real-time world model and robot-action models. The VLA maps 20 robot body configurations into a 55D action format and filters 90,000 raw robot hours to 50,000 training hours.
Goodside tests GPT-5.6 Sol on random-noise images with no hidden text
Riley Goodside tested random-noise and scribble images with no hidden message. GPT-5.6 Sol often produced invented text, while Claude Fable 5 more often refused or identified the image as non-writing.