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- 🤖 OpenAI Unveils Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, and UltraFast
🤖 OpenAI Unveils Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol, and UltraFast
🦾Plus: 🤝 Anthropic,OpenAI and Others Sign Trump’s Safety Pact
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In today's edition: Here is roundup of GPT-6.1 Sol, Decisions API, Apple Pay 👇
🧠How to build with Claude Sonnet 5.5 (by Anthropic)
⚡OpenAI ships Decisions API
⚡ Liquid AI Releases d1 to Dominate Fast Software Decision-Making
🇺🇸 The U.S. federal government gets an AI front door
💡 AI Tutorial:How to recreate the viral ’80s photo trend with ChatGPT
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OpenAI just introduced dots, always-on agents like Meta’s Muse that can keep working 24/7 from a cloud computer — leading a 20+ feature DevDay launch slate that also includes GPT-6.1 Sol, shared team workspaces, and an Ultrafast mode. Each dot can plug into over 4,000 apps and reply in Slack, Teams, or ChatGPT, with conversations that don’t count against ChatGPT usage plans.
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Agentic SDLC platforms are judged on what happens around the code, not just inside it. Five criteria shaped this ranking: Ask most AI development tools to do something, and they wait for a prompt. That works for a developer sitting at a keyboard. It does nothing for the bug filed at 2 am, the security finding that sat untriaged for a week, or the pull request comment nobody followed up on.
This guide breaks down when to use Sonnet instead of Opus, how to tune effort for coding and agent tasks, and what to change if you’re migrating from Sonnet 5. It also covers the new thinking behavior, tool-use changes, caching, and why Sonnet 5.5 can cost up to 30% less per task even though token prices stayed the same.
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OpenAI just dropped the Decisions API, and it flips how you handle routing logic inside your app. Here is the idea. Instead of writing a pile of if-else conditions to figure out what your app should do next, you hand the API a question and a list of possible answers. It picks one. That is it.
Liquid AI announced d1, its first decision model, designed for fast, structured choices inside software systems rather than long-form chatbot responses. Liquid says d1 is the first model to outperform Jev on Hugging Face’s Decision Index. Jev itself has been evaluated on more than 150,000 scoreable requests in the current Decision Index suite.
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Meta has unveiled Muse for Small Business, expanding its personal AI agent with skills and connectors designed to help people operate and grow their companies. Users can give Muse a goal such as running a business or finding new customers, then connect the services holding the information needed to pursue it.
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The Trump administration rolled out America.gov, an AI chatbot "front door" to the federal government that lets citizens ask questions and receive answers from agency websites — eventually enabling actions like filing forms via agentic flows. For now, the platform only answers questions, with AI that can fill out and file forms (passport renewals, Medicare enrollment) aiming to launch by early 2027.
President Trump signed a White House pact setting out how leading AI companies should monitor and manage the risks of their most powerful system. Leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI and NVIDIA signed alongside President Trump. Companies pledged four layers of oversight, covering internal safety controls, internal reviews, independent audits and board reviews.
Reuters obtained a leaked version of Anthropic's upcoming IPO prospectus, which shows the Claude maker grew revenue 12x in 2025 alongside massive losses — while also warning that its AI could bring “existential risks to humanity.” Anthropic is reportedly targeting a $2T+ valuation, more than double its May mark, despite losing $8B running the business and $42B overall in 2025.
Apple has spent years watching India's payments boom from the sidelines, and Tuesday it finally stepped in. Apple Pay goes live with Axis Bank as its first partner, supporting eligible Visa and Mastercard cards but not homegrown RuPay. HDFC, ICICI and SBI Card are reportedly still haggling over Apple's roughly 20 basis point fee. Acceptance starts narrow.
AI Tutorial
How to recreate the viral ’80s photo trend with ChatGPT
Open ChatGPT > Images —> Upload a clear photo of yourself. A well-lit, front-facing image works best — Use a detailed prompt like this:
Sample Prompt: “Transform this photo into a realistic 1980s portrait. Keep my face, skin tone, age, and recognizable features consistent. Give me period-appropriate 1980s hair and clothing, soft studio lighting, slightly faded colors, subtle 35mm film grain, and natural skin texture. Use an authentic retro studio backdrop and make it look like a real photograph taken in 1985, not a modern image with a vintage filter. Avoid modern objects, logos, and overly exaggerated effects.”
Generate the image and check whether your face still looks like you.
Refine the result with targeted follow-ups, for example: “Make the hair less exaggerated,” “switch to a blue mall-studio backdrop,” or “add softer film grain.”
Try different versions of the trend, such as an ’80s yearbook portrait, mall-studio photo, neon nightlife shot, family-album photo, or Hollywood-style portrait.
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