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OpenAI has released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, models for everyday tasks with different trade-offs between capabilities and cost. Choosing between them will let users and developers balance output quality against usage costs.

Claude Opus 5.5 is the first model in the Claude 5.5 family. Anthropic says it costs 40% less than Opus 5 and scores higher on complex tasks. The company also says the model achieved the best results among the systems it tested in its internal evaluations of behavior and safety.

Russia’s Industry Ministry has backed a proposal to partially reimburse the cost of implementing domestic industrial control systems. Joint funding from vendors and banks could reduce the cost for businesses of switching to Russian solutions.

OpenAI proposed agreeing on international requirements for AI safety evaluations and outlined possible areas for cooperation between institutions and companies. Common approaches could help developers and customers assess models.

A Public First poll for POLITICO found that respondents in many countries consider AI development risky and support pausing its progress. Most respondents also expect AI to reduce jobs rather than create them, which could increase public pressure on regulators.

The UK prime minister said the country intends to support an international agreement on AI during its G20 presidency. For companies and professionals, such an agreement could influence future approaches to AI governance and regulation.

Qualcomm has released two versions of the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 mobile chip, designed to process AI tasks directly on smartphones. The chips will be used in premium devices, with the launch coming amid rising memory costs and an expected contraction in the smartphone market.

Yandex and VK are in talks to create a joint venture in Russia’s cloud and enterprise IT markets. Experts estimate the combined business could capture about 30% of the market, but the assets to be included have not yet been determined.

Toyota plans to invest $6.42 billion a year in factory automation starting in 2028 and eventually deploy 400,000 robots at its plants. Employees are already training humanoid robots to perform specific tasks; the company says it sees them as a complement to people, not a replacement.

OpenAI has expanded the availability of ChatGPT Ads: the advertising feature is now available to companies in Southeast Asian countries and Taiwan. The expansion shows that the company is developing ChatGPT’s ad-based business model in new markets.

Konstantin Klyuka acquired a 45% stake in Zdorovye Goroda, the company behind the Zdorovye.ru platform and app. The previous shareholders, including former executives at Sberbank and Krok, sold their stakes.

The head of Yandex Cloud valued Russia’s enterprise AI market at about 36 billion rubles and said generative AI accounts for roughly a quarter of it. The company aims to increase its share to about half the market within five years; these are estimates and targets stated by the company’s executive.

The EvilTokens platform used an AI chatbot to analyze email, select targets and prepare messages for fraud; it has been linked to the compromise of 12,000 accounts across 10,000 organizations. Microsoft said it carried out an operation to take down the service with other industry participants.

The FBI is investigating a claim by the ShinyHunters group that it stole more than two terabytes of data, including personal information about the agency’s employees and job applicants. If the data was in fact stolen, the breach could put people whose information fell into the hands of attackers at risk.

The RatHat malware uses AI to navigate a device, steals payment service credentials and makes itself difficult to remove. The case shows that AI tools are being used not only to automate security, but also to strengthen mobile malware.

Microsoft outlined plans to add system-level tools for working with agents in Windows, including agent identification and a catalog of local MCP servers. If these changes make it into future versions of the OS, developers will find it easier to integrate agent tools into Windows.

Google has released AX, an orchestrator for managing tasks performed by autonomous AI agents, with primitives similar to those in Kubernetes. The system supports pausing and resuming tasks, which could help developers manage agents as separate resources.

NVIDIA has introduced Isaac ROS 5.0, a set of GPU-accelerated packages built on ROS for developing robotics applications. The update is aimed at developers building systems that need to perceive their surroundings and act in changing conditions.

OpenAI has updated prompt caching in GPT-6, adding diagnostics, explicit breakpoints and additional settings. This could help developers reduce latency and costs when processing similar requests repeatedly.