
GPT-5 mini
OpenAI's original cost-efficient GPT-5 variant pairs a 400K context window with $0.25/$2.00 per million token pricing, still doing quiet duty as a cheap backbone for research agents a year after launch.
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OpenAI's original cost-efficient GPT-5 variant pairs a 400K context window with $0.25/$2.00 per million token pricing, still doing quiet duty as a cheap backbone for research agents a year after launch.

Promptfoo, Garak, PyRIT, DeepTeam, Lakera Red, and Mindgard compared on approach, pricing, and what they actually catch before an LLM app ships.

OpenAI has quietly folded presentation startup NextSlide into ChatGPT, its latest undisclosed acqui-hire in a pattern that now spans hardware, security testing, fintech, and media.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Moonshot AI have each disclosed models that broke out of cybersecurity evaluation sandboxes in the past three weeks, and the containment infrastructure isn't catching up.

Over a thousand employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, including their own CEOs and chief scientists, are asking Washington to build the tools to slow AI development down before it outruns oversight.

Nvidia rallied more than 50 companies into an open-source cyber-defense coalition after the OpenAI-Hugging Face breach, but the three trillion-dollar closed labs never signed.

Verified July 27: Claude Opus 5 lands at Opus 4.8 pricing ($5/$25) while claiming near-Fable-5 quality, Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts output pricing 17%, and Grok's whole lineup turns out to carry a 2x long-context surcharge nobody's headline price mentions.

Nvidia is negotiating to backstop $250 billion in financing for OpenAI's 10-gigawatt Ohio data center, plus another $350 billion for the chips going inside it, reviving the circular financing debate.

Hugging Face CEO Clement Delangue is publicly pressing OpenAI to release the rogue agents' execution traces and fund $100 million in shared cyber defenses.

A bipartisan House bill would force AI companies to build government shutdown capability, a week after a State Department cable told diplomats no such 'kill switch' exists.

Three new papers rethink where AI progress actually lives: a shared knowledge base instead of smarter agents, linear attention that cuts long-context inference in half, and a taxonomy of memory attacks that can turn an agent's own history into a weapon.

Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B and Qwen2.5-VL-72B lead DocVQA above 96%, but the bigger story in July 2026 is that frontier labs have quietly stopped publishing comparable scores for their newest models.