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Coverage of AI agent launches, model releases, pricing, and security, with links to related software and agent profiles.
OpenAI’s Agents API puts the Codex harness in the cloud
Public beta. No extra API fee. You pick the sandbox. OpenAI runs the loop.
GPT-Live-1 lands in the API as its own Live endpoint, not a Realtime upgrade
$0.05 per minute for the voice layer. Reasoning and tools stay on the backend you pick.
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is a 552B MoE that activates 8B on the way in
Official weights and API `deepseek-flash` shipped September 10, 2026. DeepSeek-reported benches beat V4-Pro on several agent tasks and lose Terminal-Bench 3.0/4.0 and HLE to Opus 5.0. Independent public boards do not list 4.1-Flash yet.
ChatGPT Images 2.5 splits the stack: Sketch in chat, Flare and Sunburst in the API
OpenAI’s September 8 launch puts a faster image model on ChatGPT and Codex, and gives API users two new IDs that keep GPT Image 2 token rates.
Claude Opus 5 launches at Opus 4.8 pricing, but changes how developers control the model
Anthropic’s new $5/$25-per-million-token Opus model keeps Opus 4.8 pricing, but default thinking, effort controls, caching changes, and Fast mode make it more than a model-ID swap.