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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced up to 80% price cuts across the GPT-5.6 model family on July 30, 2026. GPT-5.6 Luna drops to $0.20 per million input tokens, Terra falls 20%, and Sol gains a…
American semiconductor pioneer Elsa Reichmanis, whose photoresist chemistry made modern chip manufacturing possible, publicly…
The FCC's new import ban on foreign robots extends to consumer smart vacuums, threatening to lock five Chinese brands — Roborock,…
ByteDance has quietly crossed a US$4 billion annualised AI revenue run rate — reportedly the highest in China — while…
All three Ant Group spin-offs are simultaneously pursuing independent capital raises — Ant International closed a $1.2 billion…
After Meta's shares fell 8% on a free-cash-flow scare and Alphabet posted its first-ever negative quarterly free cash flow,…
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 is slashing AI comic drama production costs to as low as 25,000 yuan — over six times cheaper than…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he is 'very close' to models that will significantly accelerate scientific discovery. His approach:…
A six-year-old girl's death after a bespoke CRISPR-linked gene-editing trial in China has exposed failures in risk assessment and…
