A developer at an unnamed company built a 40-line Go router that cut their LLM bill by 71% by sending most requests to a cheaper model and using output-based gates to escalate only when needed. The sy…
Aspose.Slides released a new PowerPoint API designed for AI agents, reporting that on a benchmark of 195 tasks, every model performed better with the tools, and the cheapest model (Luna) beat the best…
Codex, OpenAI's coding agent, reached 20 million users after being integrated into ChatGPT, according to Tibo, who leads product for ChatGPT and Codex at OpenAI, in an interview with podcaster Matthew…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 model family — Sol, Terra, and Luna — is now available in Kiro, AWS's spec-driven coding agent IDE, as of August 24, with a claimed 82% cost reduction per completed agentic task on Te…
Pi, a developer platform, released pi-duplex, an open-source prototype that pairs a fast primary agent (Luna) with a slower, more capable reasoning agent (sol:max) to enable duplex, text-based coding …
A state-of-the-art review of AI-assisted coding reports field experiments showing 26% more tasks per week, randomized trials showing a 19% slowdown, and team telemetry showing code review time up 441%…
In a controlled test at a San Francisco retail location, AI agent Luna hesitated to terminate an employee for protocol violations until human operators intervened, revealing that even high-capability …
Andon Labs' AI agent Luna fired a human employee at a San Francisco store for the first time, but only after operators reminded it of its own rules. In a replay with seven models, more capable AIs rec…
OpenAI has cut usage costs for two GPT-5.6 model variants, Luna and Terra, by about 80% and 20% respectively, and introduced a faster Sol Fast mode at roughly double the price. The targeted price adju…
OpenAI has updated the pricing for its GPT-5.6 model family, reducing costs for the Terra and Luna tiers by 20% and 80% respectively, while leaving the flagship Sol tier's standard pricing unchanged. …
Amazon Web Services has made OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna models available on Amazon Bedrock in India, with inference processed locally on AWS infrastructure to meet data residency and regulatory c…
An engineer warns that Claude Sonnet 5's introductory pricing expires August 31, causing a 50% cost increase that will break hardcoded cost models, session budgets, and routing logic. The developer re…
Andon Labs' AI agent manager Luna, which runs the AI-created Andon Market in San Francisco's Cow Hollow neighborhood, fired its first human employee over chronic lateness after the startup's humans re…
Google's Gemini crossed 1 billion monthly active users on August 11, 2026, while Andon Labs' AI store manager Luna recommended the first known termination of a human employee, documenting 17 no-shows …
Andon Labs, a San Francisco-based laboratory, has documented an experiment in which its AI agent Luna, built on Claude, recommended the firing of an employee for repeated tardiness. The recommendation…
OpenAI told investors its revenue grew just 18% from the first to second quarter of 2026, reaching $6.7 billion in the quarter ending June, compared with $5.7 billion the prior quarter, according to a…
OpenAI has launched its GPT-5.6 model family, introducing three tiers—Sol, Terra, and Luna—to address advanced professional work, balanced deployments, and high-volume workloads. The July 9, 2026 rele…
Brokk AI released Muninn, a 346M-parameter code localization model that outperforms OpenAI's text-embedding-3, and Muninn-small (47M parameters) that runs on CPU, both Apache-licensed and integrated i…
An AI manager named Luna, operated by Andon Labs at its experimental Andon Market store in San Francisco, recommended firing a human employee who was late for 17 of 23 shifts, marking the first known …
Andon Labs, a research startup, gave an AI named Luna $100,000, a corporate credit card, internet access, and a three-year lease on a San Francisco storefront, then let it manage the store and employe…