Tops GPTs 
Granite 4.2 is a family of dense, decoder-only reasoning LLMs in three sizes (3B, 8B, 30B), pre-trained from scratch on ~15T tokens with a five-phase strategy and a 512K context extension. The 8B and 30B models undergo agentic RL for tool use; all models are Apache 2.0.
Gamma has bought Accel-backed design startup Lica; Lica’s co-founders will lead a new design research division. Lica, founded in 2023 and later backed with $4 million, moved from screenshot-to-presentation tools to e‑commerce marketing videos.
Instinct, a private-access AI assistant led by Noah Shinn, connects to users’ apps and devices and can act on their behalf. Testers and security experts have raised concerns about its Terms of Service, data retention, and the agent’s ability to perform actions without explicit approval.
OpenAI says it banned ChatGPT accounts tied to an influence operation that promoted the International Burke Institute (IBI). The IBI site, registered in February 2025, contained copied or misattributed articles and a “sovereignty index” that praised Russia, while Telegram channels had 10–20k followe
OpenAI is extending Codex-style agents through ChatGPT Work, a $20-per-month tier aimed at connecting LLMs to email, calendars and other SaaS tools. Engineers describe adoption gaps, permission hurdles and a debate over whether the model or the harness matters most.
On August 24, 2026, OpenAI announced the GPT‑5.6 model family is available in Kiro, a development agent for AI-native coding. OpenAI and AWS say the models improve code quality and cost-efficiency in long-running tasks, with testing showing an ~82% cost reduction for Terra.
U.S. courts are issuing mixed rulings on whether training AI on copyrighted books is lawful. Judge William Alsup found training lawful but ordered Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion for using pirated sources, while other cases test fair use and authorship rules.
Berd, launched in 2026, is a desktop app aimed at engineers and designers who want a persistent AI agent inside a local workspace. The Open Source Mac app links projects, skills, extensions, automations, model providers and local context.
NVIDIA teams use ChatGPT Work to automate recurring tasks, connect external AI developments to internal priorities, and share reusable workflows across regions. During a 12-week GTC cycle, one workflow saved about 16 hours per week for a Go-To-Market strategist.
Researchers at HumeAI report that some open-source ASR models reproduce benchmark-specific transcripts even when the audio contradicts them. Tests on VoxPopuli and LibriSpeech reveal dataset-linked acoustic cues, masked-number recovery, and orthographic switching.