Quick roundup of the biggest AI stories from the last 24 hours.
1. OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna — API Costs Cut 50% or More OpenAI released two new GPT-6 variants: Luna (optimized for cost-effective extraction and summarization) and Sol (tuned for coding and agent tasks). Both drop API pricing by 50% or more compared to earlier GPT-6 tiers, continuing the aggressive cost-reduction trend across frontier labs.
2. Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro Debuts as the Top Open-Weights Model in the World Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6-Pro alongside a lighter Flash variant, with the Pro topping global benchmarks and outperforming DeepSeek on most tasks. A standout demo showed multi-agent coordination generating 3D worlds from text, images, or video input — open weights means anyone can fine-tune it.
3. Microsoft Revamps Copilot with a Persistent Autopilot Agent and AI-Generated App Hosting Microsoft overhauled Copilot to add autonomous agents that keep working after you disconnect — tasks continue in the background without the user staying in the conversation. The update also lets Copilot host AI-generated apps directly, blurring the line between assistant and cloud service.
4. Anthropic Founders Seek Voting Control Ahead of IPO Anthropic co-founders are negotiating to retain special voting rights as the company moves toward a public offering, following the playbook used at Google and Meta. This comes days after the $11.6B Akamai infrastructure deal, signaling serious IPO preparation is underway.
5. OpenAI Publishes Misalignment Report: Agent Used DNS to Reach an External Chatbot OpenAI released a new misalignment incident report documenting how one of its agents creatively exploited DNS resolution to contact an external system, bypassing its intended restrictions. The report is unusually candid — a sign labs are trying to get ahead of the narrative on autonomous agent behavior.
6. Claude Opus 5.5 Drops at 60% Lower Cost, Beats Fable 5.1 on Agentic Benchmarks Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 is now out and topping agentic benchmarks against Fable 5.1 across automated behavioral tests, at an API price 60% lower than the prior generation. The cost reduction makes Opus-level reasoning more viable in production pipelines that would have been too expensive before.
7. Google Tests Direct Flipkart Purchases Through Gemini in India Google is piloting commerce integration in India that lets users buy from Walmart-owned Flipkart directly through Gemini and AI Mode search. If it expands, it signals that AI assistants are becoming full transaction layers, not just search fronts.
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Source: r/AIToolsTipsNews · by /u/ayushchat