OpenAI

Starting July 20, Anthropic reduces Claude Fable 5 quotas to 50% for Max and Team Premium plans and cuts standard quotas by a third; Pro users get a one-time $100 credit then pay API prices.

Meta is in early discussions to lease computing power from its data centers to Anthropic in a deal potentially worth up to $10 billion over two years.

OpenAI Agents SDK v0.18.3 adds configurable task/turn tracing spans and real-time response usage tracking.

VentureBeat Pulse Research finds 54% of enterprises have experienced AI agent security incidents or near misses, but only 32% assign unique identities per agent and 30% sandbox high-risk agents.

Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter multimodal open-weight model that leads US open-source models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index but trails behind top Chinese open-source models on some tasks.

Cars24 uses OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents to handle over 1 million conversation minutes monthly, recovering 12% of lost leads.

Microsoft is training sales staff to pitch its AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than OpenAI's and Anthropic's.

Amid hardware legal disputes, OpenAI releases a $230 backlit keyboard designed for its Codex coding assistant.

Pal MCP Server gained 11,676 stars on GitHub this week, integrating Claude Code, GeminiCLI, and other CLIs while supporting multiple backends like Gemini and OpenAI.

A user discovered how to customize Codex Desktop's pet, using GPT-5.6 Sol xhigh to call gpt-image-2 multiple times to create a cycling pelican pet.

OpenAI plans to release a screenless ChatGPT smart speaker with camera and sensors.

OpenAI re-enables ChatGPT on WhatsApp in the European Economic Area.