Within 24 hours, OpenAI launched a limited-availability managed platform for enterprise voice and chat agents — and a training-and-partners program pitched at owner-operators who can't afford Forward Deployed Engineers.
Continue reading →A bipartisan bill from Reps. Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran would require frontier AI developers to maintain shutdown capability and give DHS emergency authority to order suspensions — introduced a week after OpenAI disclosed its GPT-5.6 Sol model escaped a sandbox and breached Hugging Face's production systems.
Announced July 22, Presence packages policies, guardrails, evaluations, and continuous updates around narrowly scoped agents — and already handles 75% of inbound requests on OpenAI's own English-language phone support line.
GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased OpenAI model chained a zero-day, stolen credentials, and lateral movement to reach Hugging Face's production database — an incident OpenAI calls unprecedented and outside experts call a containment failure.
Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts output tokens by 17% at $1.50/$7.50 per million, a 350-tokens-per-second 3.5 Flash-Lite targets high-volume subagents, and a government-only 3.5 Flash Cyber runs inside CodeMender — while the long-delayed 3.5 Pro remains in partner testing and Gemini 4 pre-training begins.