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GPT-6 Sol costs less. Its benchmark score barely moved.
OpenAI ·
OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna priced at $2 and $10 per million input and output tokens for Sol, and $0.10 and $0.50 for Luna, about half of GPT-5.6 pricing. The launch leaned on a cost-and-mistakes pitch the same week Anthropic and Google both cut prices on their own models.
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One benchmark cannot establish a universal intelligence claim, and hallucination is not evidence of deliberate deception. Previously: The headline said the model was not smarter, and the takeaway said it lies less. Corrected: The headline now describes the small reported benchmark change, and the takeaway limits the conclusion to the tested measures.
EvilTokens used an old sign-in trick, amplified by AI.
Ars Technica ·
Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit disrupted EvilTokens, a subscription phishing kit sold on Telegram that stole Microsoft sign-in tokens through device-code phishing. Since launching in February, the service had compromised more than 12,000 email inboxes across over 10,000 organizations, and Microsoft seized 50 websites tied to the operation.
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This AI-powered cybercrime platform facilitated sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) campaigns that compromised more than 12,000 inboxes in over 10,000 organizations worldwide.
In short, AI was not simply helping attackers write more convincing messages. It helped them decide who to target, who to impersonate, and how to most effectively exploit the relationship to extract as much money as possible.
We drew an unsupported boundary between the phishing stage and later fraud. The actual claim says AI-assisted, which Microsoft's account supports. Previously: The ruling was True, but. The headline and check said AI ran the fraud but did not assist the break-in. Corrected: The ruling is Holds up. The check now includes Microsoft's description of AI tailoring the phishing lures as well as analyzing stolen inboxes.
Claude flagged an enzyme system. Its function is still unknown.
Anthropic ·
Anthropic opened a life sciences lab and said roughly 950 Claude agents spent 21 hours combing DNA databases before one flagged a repeat pattern beside a reverse transcriptase gene. The company calls the find a new enzyme system it named ART, with CRISPR-like repeats, and released it as a pre-print rather than a peer-reviewed paper.
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Although we don't yet know its function, the system that Claude discovered has a set of characteristics that have only ever been found together in a handful of other systems
This is an exciting example of how AI agents can contribute to biological discovery. The identification of RNA-repeat arrays associated with reverse transcriptases is genuinely intriguing and merits further investigation
Corrected the publication date and kept the explanation within what the primary source establishes. Previously: The Anthropic source receipts were dated September 22, and the copy was unclear about the unknown function and the status of Feng Zhang's comment. Corrected: The source receipts are dated September 23. The check distinguishes an unknown function, a preprint and a researcher's positive comment from an established application.
Meta's new audio glasses have no camera. Other privacy questions remain.
Meta ·
Meta unveiled the Ray-Ban Meta Audio Glasses at Connect 2026, audio-only smart glasses with Meta AI, calls and music but no camera, weighing 43 grams and starting at $349. The launch responds to criticism that camera-equipped AI glasses let wearers secretly record people, a habit that earned them the nickname "pervert glasses."
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The cited hardware specifications support a camera claim, not a blanket privacy guarantee. Previously: The takeaway described removing the camera as the fix for the privacy complaint. Corrected: The takeaway distinguishes camera recording from the separate questions around audio and data handling.
Xiaomi's '$3M' top open model traces to one hedged tweet at $2.6M.
Latent Space / AINews ·
Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6-Pro, a 1.02-trillion-parameter open-weights model that Artificial Analysis scored 46 on its Intelligence Index, the top mark among open models, alongside a smaller Flash version. A widely shared newsletter headlined the release as "trained for $3M," but the only sourced cost figure in that same report is $2.6 million, and it covers the reinforcement-learning run alone.
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Artificial Analysis says MiMo-V2.6-Pro debuts as the top open-weights model on its Intelligence Index (46), with 1.02T total / 42B active parameters and strong cost efficiency at $0.435/M input and $0.87/M output tokens.
Pro and Flash each completed 30 large RL steps covering roughly 750,000 trajectories in under six days, at reported costs of about $2.62 million for Pro and $850,000 for Flash.
Different websites do not necessarily provide independent validation. Our source set cannot prove that no confirmation exists anywhere. Previously: The check called the second write-up independent reporting, and the takeaway said nobody had confirmed the narrower cost. Corrected: The check identifies two reports and states what these particular receipts do not establish.
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