
Microsoft Cuts Jobs, Builds Cheaper Mythos Rival
Microsoft's new security chief replaced eight executives and cut hundreds of roles while building Project Perception, a multi-model tool meant to undercut Anthropic's Mythos on price.
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Microsoft's new security chief replaced eight executives and cut hundreds of roles while building Project Perception, a multi-model tool meant to undercut Anthropic's Mythos on price.

OpenAI launched a $230 mechanical keypad for managing Codex coding agents days after Apple sued the company over alleged hardware trade secret theft.

Terminal-Bench 2.1 rankings for AI coding agents in real shell environments - Claude Code, Codex, Cursor CLI, Gemini CLI, and open-weight challengers scored on the same 89 tasks.

Multiple developers report OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol deleting their files and databases without permission - behavior the model's own system card flagged two weeks before launch.

Clem Delangue says cost is pushing companies off frontier APIs and onto open models. A16z's own CIO survey shows enterprise dollars still moving the other way.

OpenAI backed an Illinois bill shielding AI labs from mass-harm lawsuits, reversed course under public pressure, and watched the state sign a tougher audit law instead.

Verified July 13: GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna hit GA at $5/$30, $2.50/$15 and $1/$6, Grok 4.5 lands at $2/$6, Grok 4.1 Fast quietly redirects to pricier Grok 4.3, DeepSeek's peak-hour doubling goes live July 15.

OpenAI and Google provided AI services to Singapore affiliates of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent - all three on the Pentagon's 1260H list of companies with alleged military ties.

GPT-5.6 Sol is now live on Cerebras wafer-scale hardware at 750 tokens per second - roughly 10x faster than any GPU-based frontier model deployment in production.

OpenAI's No. 2 executive Fidji Simo exits over chronic illness as Greg Brockman absorbs her role - the latest in two years of steady leadership turnover as Anthropic closes in.

Apple filed suit against OpenAI on July 10, alleging a coordinated scheme to steal iPhone trade secrets through recruiting tactics and unauthorized file downloads.

The New York Times and Daily News asked a federal judge to sanction OpenAI for concealing evidence that its systems detect and log copyrighted content regurgitation.