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OpenAI Images 2.6 adds animated GIF generation
OpenAI's Images 2.6 adds animated GIFs and reusable reference images in ChatGPT and Codex. The API also adds Flare and Sunburst variants, complexity controls and SVG export.
Tencent releases Hy4 with a 1M-token context window in OpenClaw
Tencent's Hy4 is available in OpenClaw with vision and a 1M-token context window through Tencent services and OpenRouter. Chutes support is planned.
OpenAI Images 2.6 adds animated GIF generation
OpenAI's Images 2.6 adds animated GIFs and reusable reference images in ChatGPT and Codex. The API also adds Flare and Sunburst variants, complexity controls and SVG export.
Junior assigns a separate agent to verify tool calls
Zeeg says Junior assigns an agent to verify tool calls. Its task threads share prompts, memory access and capabilities, but keep separate transcripts with more aggressive compaction for long-lived threads.
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Vals tests: four models retain at least 80% of scores at half cost or less
Vals tested seven models and found four retained at least 80% of their scores at half the cost or less. All seven scored worse overall at their lowest reasoning setting.
Runner-up runs GitHub Actions on self-hosted machines
Runner-up packages a self-hosted setup used for thousands of daily CI jobs, with disposable VMs for isolation. Its author estimates equivalent cloud runners would cost $5,000–$9,000 per month.
Researchers link LM-head quantization to loss spikes after billions of tokens
Micah Goldblum's team reports that LM-head quantization errors can cause loss spikes after billions of apparently healthy training tokens. The researchers demonstrate an optimizer change that prevents the failures.
Artificial Analysis finds Opus 5.5 acted 22 minutes after a robot task passed
In an Artificial Analysis robot-arm test, Opus 5.5 kept acting for 22 minutes after reaching a passing state. Only GPT-6.1 Sol and Gemini 4 Argon stopped within a minute.
Claude API adds server-managed message threads
Anthropic’s public beta lets clients continue cached conversations by sending a previous message ID. Anthropic reports 35% lower median time to first token on Claude Code requests with 500K–1M tokens, at standard token rates.