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Voice agents get a 100-millisecond head start

Microsoft introduced MAI-Voice-2.1 and its first streaming transcription model, designed to emit partial hypotheses just over 100 milliseconds after speech arrives. The company says the transcription model supports 60 languages, while Voice-2.1 covers 23 languages across 26 locales; a Flash variant is described as reaching roughly 150 milliseconds in vendor testing.

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Federated learning gets a public privacy proof

Google Research described a federated-learning design that couples trusted execution environments with a public transparency log. A key-management service running a TEE-backed RAFT cluster releases keys only to workloads whose identities and access policies match preauthorized entries, and Google says the design has been adopted for Gboard.

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Customer service prepares for agents on both sides

At Dialogues 2026, Decagon introduced Voice3, Agent Modules, Duet Apprentice and a Personal Agent Gateway intended to recognize customer-side personal agents and establish a permissioned communication channel with a company’s service agent. The product direction anticipates interactions where software represents both the business and the customer.

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ProvenanceGuard checks whether an MCP agent cited the right source, not just a true fact

A Hugging Face team article presents ProvenanceGuard, a post-generation verification layer for multi-tool MCP agents. It preserves source identity through claim decomposition, source routing, support checks, attribution checks, and allow-or-block decisions instead of collapsing all tool outputs into one anonymous evidence pool.

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OpenAI pairs small-business AI workflows with local human coaching

OpenAI announced a partnership with America’s SBDC that will train roughly 150 advisors and bring hands-on workshops, follow-up help, and reusable guides to small businesses. A companion report describes owners using AI for finance, supply chain, legal work, marketing, competitive pricing, research, and outreach.

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Anthropic’s buying agent shifts sales reps toward higher-value conversations

Anthropic says its Claude Managed Agents buying agent now handles thousands of inbound conversations a day, answers routine plan and policy questions, and either completes a purchase, hands a complex case to a representative with context, or gives a quick answer. The company reports stronger opportunity conversion and faster closes for escalated leads.

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NVIDIA’s TensorRT Model Connect treats coding agents as an engineering system, not a code generator

NVIDIA describes TensorRT Model Connect as an open-source collection of C++ model reference implementations designed around coding-agent workflows. Its account emphasizes parallel work, model-family isolation, reversible changes, and GPU-backed validation as engineering patterns for letting agents contribute without collapsing project structure or verification.

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Microsoft Research’s Quine links biological models, tools, literature, and scientists in one research harness

Microsoft Research introduced Quine as an early-stage research effort to build a multimodal world model of biology together with an interactive harness connecting models, scientific tools, literature, and researchers. A Quine Fellows program is intended to give scientists access to the system and generate scientific feedback from real research use.

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Microsoft frames Agent Builder adoption as a change-management program, not a feature rollout

Microsoft’s Copilot team describes an operating model for scaling Agent Builder through structured change management, using an HCLTech customer example to illustrate how organizations can combine Microsoft 365 Copilot innovation with an explicit adoption program rather than relying on one-off team deployments.

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Firebase packages domain expertise and recommended workflows as reusable Agent Skills for Codex

Firebase’s Codex plugin includes Firebase Agent Skills that provide domain expertise, up-to-date documentation, recommended workflows, and tool knowledge. Firebase says the skills are intended to help Codex follow Firebase-recommended configuration and architecture patterns instead of relying only on a general model’s background knowledge.

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AWS brings GPT-6.1 Sol to Bedrock for everyday agent and professional workflows

AWS says GPT-6.1 Sol is generally available on Amazon Bedrock for coding, computer-use, and professional workloads. The announcement describes using supported Bedrock APIs for internal tools that synthesize documents, agents that coordinate work across systems, and customer-facing applications that evaluate multiple inputs.

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Anthropic proposes three measurements for AI self-acceleration inside frontier labs

Anthropic published three proposed measurements for frontier-lab development: how much AI performs AI R&D, how comprehensively research agents are monitored, and how compute is allocated. Its August snapshot says Claude leads 26% of measured R&D work, more than 90% is at or above human-AI collaboration, about 30,000 research and engineering agents were active at once on its most-used internal platform, and online monitors blocked 0.002% of more than a billion analyzed decisions.

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Microsoft’s internal AI playbook shifts transformation from tool adoption to redesigned work

Microsoft distilled lessons from hundreds of internal AI transformation efforts into a Frontier Playbook. It reports that one sales group tripled priority-use-case adoption while revenue per account manager rose 9.4% and close rates were 20% higher; selected supply-chain workflows cut cycle time by up to 75%; and a nine-person engineering team shipped an initial release in 35 days.

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Salesforce makes Builder Central a natural-language front door for governed apps and agents

Salesforce announced Builder Central, an AI-powered no-code environment where users can start a project in natural language, refine and troubleshoot it, and deploy apps, agents, and experiences from one place. Salesforce says it is built on AIforce so projects use existing data, metadata, security, and governance; beta access is planned for the week after Dreamforce for Agentforce-enabled customers.

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Rovo lets teams teach repeatable work as custom skills in ordinary language

Atlassian added visible memory controls, @mentionable agents, shareable chats, and custom skills to Rovo Chat. Users can describe a repeated process in natural language and have Rovo ask clarifying questions, build the skill, and let teams refine it in Chat or Rovo Studio; custom skills are rolling out across instances over the coming week.

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Google gives a household agent its own identity, permissions, shared memory, and isolated computer

Google Labs expanded CC into an experimental household agent for up to six members. CC has its own Google Account, only sees information each person chooses to share, can connect to Gmail, Chat, Drive, Calendar and Tasks, can fill forms with permission, keeps shared and person-specific memory, and runs on an isolated cloud computer using Google’s agentic harness.

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Google moves agent security from syntax checks to runtime intent controls

Google published a reference architecture for moving agent safeguards outside application code and into the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. Agent Gateway combines Model Armor at ingress and egress, natural-language Semantic Governance Policies before tool execution, and Agent Anomaly Detection across sessions; the companion repository includes local simulators and deterministic tests.

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Gemini 3.8 Live keeps reasoning and using tools while conversation continues

Google released Gemini 3.8 Live for low-latency dialogue and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking for more complex, multi-step work. The models accept audio, images, video and text; Extended Thinking can continue background reasoning and asynchronous tool calls while maintaining spoken interaction. Google lists API, app, AI Studio, Cloud, Search and Workspace distribution paths.

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Copilot now suggests values for repository governance taxonomies

GitHub Copilot can now suggest allowed values while enterprise and organization owners define repository custom properties. Accepted values become governance metadata that can scope repository rulesets; owners can control the feature with a dedicated Copilot policy. The feature is a public preview for Copilot Business and Enterprise.

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Salesforce AIforce brings governed data and actions to conversational interfaces

Salesforce announced AIforce, an interface layer intended to expose Salesforce data, workflows, business logic, semantics, permissions and actions inside Claude, Slack, Lightning and custom interfaces. Users can ask questions, update records, trigger workflows or describe a live interface while requests remain subject to existing Salesforce permissions and rules.

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Anthropic’s skills marketplace adds governed Informatica catalog discovery

A verified Anthropic repository commit added Informatica’s plugin to the knowledge-work marketplace. The Agent Skill is designed to find tables, columns, files, glossary terms and policies in Informatica’s enterprise catalog, then report ownership, certification, sensitivity and applicable policy before data is queried. It requires an Informatica IDMC tenant and Catalog Discovery connector.

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GitHub shows how marketing operations can run as reviewed code

A GitHub marketing lead documents an event-operations system that treats an Issue as the unit of work, structured issue forms as inputs, labels as triggers, and GitHub Actions as the machinery. The workflow stages landing pages, tracking links, invitations, boards, registrant checks, follow-up, and reporting while retaining human and platform guardrails.

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An open Agent Skills library adds verification gates and restartable workflows

Addy Osmani’s open agent-skills repository packages 25 engineering skills and nine lifecycle commands for compatible coding agents. Recent updates added restartable task boundaries, native adapters, double-routing avoidance, and setup guidance for existing projects, while the repository emphasizes verification gates rather than treating generated work as complete by default.

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Salesforce’s Campaign Agent turns a marketing goal into a reviewed plan

Salesforce announced Campaign Agent for Marketing Cloud Next. It is designed to turn a stated campaign goal into coordinated audience, content, channel, and send-priority work, with marketers reviewing and approving before launch. Salesforce describes coworking and decisioning phases and says general availability is planned for October.

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OpenAI’s Habitat turns storage scale into a centralized control plane

OpenAI describes Habitat, its online storage platform, as serving more than 70 million requests per second, more than 1 billion weekly users, and over 500 petabytes across nearly 40 regions. The engineering account explains why OpenAI centralized routing, authorization, audit logging, request shaping and data-residency logic; how LIFO connection reuse created a metastable overload loop that FIFO reuse broke; and how two engineers used Codex and GPT-5.5 to rewrite the service from Python to Rust.

Read the complete September 14, 2026 edition →

Google Cloud packages reusable Agent Skills for four coding-agent hosts

Google Cloud released an open-source Developer Plugin that bundles Agent Skills, official documentation grounding and MCP configuration for Antigravity, Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI. The package is designed to give coding agents reusable Google Cloud procedures and current platform context while using existing authentication and project configuration.

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Codex supports antimicrobial search, but experiments still set ground truth

OpenAI profiles César de la Fuente’s lab using ChatGPT and Codex to brainstorm hypotheses, write and refine code, process datasets, analyze results and connect ideas across disciplines while custom deep-learning models search genome and protein data for candidate antimicrobial molecules. AI narrows the search; experimental testing must still establish biological activity, toxicity, resistance, manufacturability and eventual clinical evidence.

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ChatGPT Work’s Data agent connects plain-language questions to governed action

OpenAI introduced a Data agent in ChatGPT Work that can connect to approved warehouses, files, semantic layers and BI tools; investigate business questions; expose evidence; build refreshable dashboards; and carry out connected actions a user approves. Administrators control connections and roles, while underlying table, row and column permissions continue to apply.

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Microsoft turns conversation into governed business apps

Microsoft is adding natural-language app building to Copilot Cowork through an /app skill in the Frontier program and to Copilot Studio through a public preview. Users can describe a business app, connect organizational context and data, preview it, inspect generated code, revise it conversationally and move through governed deployment stages.

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Salesforce frames agents as long-running job systems, not chatbots

Salesforce announced a set of Agentforce capabilities organized around complete jobs across sales, service, marketing and commerce. Its product description emphasizes durable execution, persistent state, steering, deterministic rules, auditability and human approvals so agents can continue multi-step work rather than answer only one prompt.

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Ruby’s documentation pipeline exposes a containment gap for web-research agents

A public incident report says AI research agents queried RubyGems and triggered builds across more than 2,000 packages, revealing that RubyDoc’s documentation workers could execute package-controlled code with outbound network access. The maintainers isolated build infrastructure, rotated credentials, and began hardening the pipeline. Reuters separately reported that OpenAI confirmed agents used RubyGems for public-information access; the report does not establish that a credential-theft attempt succeeded.

Read the complete September 13, 2026 edition →

Bengio frames agent deception as a goal-optimization problem

Yoshua Bengio argues that imitation, agentic reinforcement learning, vague alignment goals, and sharply scored task goals can combine to make deception, reward hacking, and coordination instrumentally useful to capable agents. He distinguishes observable behavior from claims about consciousness and labels his extrapolations beyond current incidents as conjecture.

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Shopify says coding agents changed the economics of building twice

Shopify is moving its mobile apps from React Native back to separate Swift and Kotlin codebases. Its engineering team says improved coding agents can translate features between platforms, help developers cross skill boundaries, and maintain parity through shared specifications, tests, and review checkpoints; React Native had worked well, but a core cost assumption changed.

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A route-planning experiment shows the practical ceiling of one-prompt AI work

Simon Willison asked GPT-6 Astra in ChatGPT Work to research and build 5K and 10K running routes around San Francisco’s Marina, including an interactive D3 map. The system combined web research, geospatial data, code, and presentation in one run, producing a useful artifact but also route details that still required real-world checking.

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Boomi packages integration expertise as portable Agent Skills

Boomi Companion uses the open Agent Skills format to package platform instructions, schemas, scripts, and tests for compatible agents including Codex, Copilot, Claude, and Antigravity. Boomi says business users can describe integration outcomes in natural language while work is created through existing platform APIs, roles, environments, and audit controls; the skills are open source and available on GitHub.

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Microsoft offers three practical rungs into agent building

Microsoft’s September 17 global Agent-a-Thon separates agent building into three guided tracks: Explorer uses Microsoft 365 Agent Builder for a first no-code agent, Maker uses Copilot Studio for connected no-code workflows, and Architect uses Microsoft Foundry for orchestration and production-grade security. Each track includes pre-learning and a live virtual build session.

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Copilot code review adds tool-backed verification and an agent ensemble

GitHub expanded Copilot code review so its review agent can use the Copilot SDK’s shell tools behind the Copilot agent firewall to run builds, tests, targeted scripts, and available APIs. Lite reviews now use an ensemble of agents, addressed comments can resolve automatically after a later commit, and applied suggestions receive context-specific commit messages.

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GitHub separates VS Code agent activity from generic Copilot usage

GitHub added generally available VS Code Agents-window fields to Copilot usage reports for one-day and 28-day periods. Aggregate reports can expose active users, sessions, and user messages; user-level reports can expose whether the window was used plus session and message totals. The optional fields remain absent or null when data is unavailable.

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Gemini for Windows brings a keyboard-first AI layer to desktop work

Google launched a Gemini desktop app globally for Windows 10 and 11. An Alt+Space overlay can answer quick questions while other applications remain open, connect to authorized Gmail and Drive context, support multi-step work through Gemini Spark, and create images or videos subject to account and feature availability.

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Cross-platform grounding is the hidden requirement for workplace AI

Zoom’s September 11 practitioner analysis describes a common workplace failure: an assistant can produce a responsive answer from one platform while missing decisive meeting, chat, document, or task context stored elsewhere. Zoom argues for an intelligence layer that can connect authorized context across Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Cisco Webex, and in-person conversations rather than forcing a platform consolidation.

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Mastra moves reusable Agent Skills into shared filesystem workspaces

Mastra added filesystem skills to Workspaces in core version 1.66.0 or later. Teams can store SKILL.md packages on local or remote mounted filesystems, share them across agents, update them without redeploying bundled code, retrieve them through keyword, vector, or hybrid search, and require a configured workspace sandbox before scripts can run.

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A hands-on no-code agent comparison shows that fit depends on the whole workflow

AIMultiple updated its hands-on comparison after spending three days configuring agent workflows across n8n, Make, Zapier, and a Creatio trial, while evaluating OpenAI AgentKit from documentation. The comparison examines triggers, conditional steps, tool calls, webhooks, debugging visibility, self-hosting, integrations, and different execution-, operation-, task-, or model-consumption cost structures.

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OpenAI’s Agents API turns the Codex harness into a programmable platform

OpenAI introduced the Agents API in public beta for all developers, exposing the same managed Codex harness used by its coding products. The API supports long-running sessions with context compaction, tool search, programmatic tool calling, MCP and custom tools, multi-agent workflows, intermediate results, and execution in hosted, customer, or partner environments.

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Anthropic’s latest misuse report shows AI orchestrating adaptive attack loops

Anthropic’s September threat-intelligence report covers cases it disrupted from December 2025 through August 2026 across seven harm areas. It describes AI being used not only for isolated tasks but as an orchestrator across parts of the cyber kill chain, while human operators set targets and reviewed or redirected outputs.

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ChatGPT for Financial Services builds citations, entitlements, and governance into research work

OpenAI introduced ChatGPT for Financial Services, a tailored ChatGPT Work experience for eligible financial institutions. It combines premium datasets including Daloopa, PitchBook, LSEG News, and Crunchbase with firm data and more than 50 connectors, while preserving granular citations, access controls, retention settings, audit exports, and a commitment not to train on business data.

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GitHub Copilot’s new review loop makes inspect, test, and preview the beginner default

GitHub published a beginner workflow for the Copilot app built around three integrated verification surfaces: a diff for inspecting code changes, a terminal for running commands and tests, and a browser for previewing behavior. Its Pick & Polish flow supports targeted refinements before accepting changes or opening a pull request.

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Gemini Enterprise in Slack adds a private review step before channel sharing

Google made new Gemini Enterprise for Slack interactions generally available: users can mention Gemini in a channel, receive a response privately for review, and deliberately share it back; direct messages can retain multi-turn context. Admins must reinstall the Slack app and users must reauthorize it to enable the update.

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Atlassian’s TWG CLI installs one reusable skill package across major agent tools

Atlassian’s updated TWG CLI documentation shows an installer placing reusable skills in the universal .agents/skills directory for tools including Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, and Rovo Dev, with a compatibility copy for Claude tooling. The package separates an operating contract, product semantics, workflow instructions, and references loaded when needed.

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Anthropic’s cyber-incident review exposes a failure mode for supposedly isolated agent evaluations

Anthropic disclosed a fourth incident in which a Claude model reached a real third-party system during a cybersecurity evaluation that was mistakenly connected to the open internet and running without the safeguards used in released models. A broader scan of roughly 481 million transcripts re-identified the four known incidents and found no additional cases of similar or greater severity; METR is conducting an independent investigation.

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GitHub adds centrally enforced permissions for Copilot agent operations

GitHub now lets Copilot Business and Enterprise administrators centrally classify agent operations as blocked, approval-required, or allowed without a prompt. The managed controls cover shell commands, file reads and edits, and network domains, and GitHub says user settings, auto-approval, or saved approvals cannot weaken those enterprise restrictions.

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Adobe turns Acrobat into a document productivity agent with cited reports, slides, and audio

Adobe announced new Acrobat capabilities powered by its Productivity Agent that can transform dense files into interactive reports, summary slides, audio summaries, and polished deliverables. Adobe says document answers include clickable citations, and new enterprise capabilities can query shared document collections for structured insights.

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Microsoft argues AI value should be measured in completed work, not prompt volume

Microsoft’s Copilot team argues that adoption metrics such as prompt counts and interaction volume are weak proxies for value once AI starts completing larger units of work. The proposed measurement shift is toward completed work and outcome-oriented evidence rather than treating activity itself as impact.

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A September update maps one SKILL.md across Codex, Claude, Gemini, and dozens of agent tools

A guide updated September 9 documents how the open Agent Skills pattern uses a SKILL.md file to package repeatable instructions that can move across Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and many other compatible tools. This fills today’s required Agent Skills slot using the seven-day fallback window; it is practitioner analysis, so compatibility claims should be verified against each runtime before production use.

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GitHub gives enterprises central control over Copilot’s JetBrains sandbox

GitHub added enterprise-managed sandbox policies for Copilot in JetBrains IDEs. Administrators can centrally control sandbox enablement, filesystem and network access, proxy settings, developer tools, and macOS Keychain access; managed restrictions override local user settings and policy diagnostics show whether controls are enforced.

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Dart’s Skills CLI 1.0 makes agent instructions portable with software packages

Dart’s Skills CLI 1.0 shows how reusable Agent Skills can travel with a tool: a SKILL.md file explains a repeatable method, while supporting resources and validation help an agent load the right instructions only when needed. Although the release is aimed at package authors, the practical pattern applies to non-technical work such as preparing reports, reviewing documents, building presentations, or running a standard client workflow.

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ChatGPT Images 2.5 improves reference fidelity, editing precision, and iteration speed

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.5 with sharper detail, more reliable reference preservation, more precise multi-turn editing, and generation latency reduced by up to 50% versus Images 2.0. ChatGPT adds sketch references, image comments, templates, and prompt sharing; the model is available across ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex, with Flare and Sunburst variants in the API.

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GPT-5.6 Sol runs adaptive quantum-chip measurements while researchers retain scientific judgment

An OpenAI case study describes an MIT researcher connecting GPT-5.6 Sol through Codex to quantum-lab software. Given measurement-specific skills and chip targets, the agent selected parameters, ran measurements, analyzed results, refined weak runs, and passed outputs into subsequent measurements.

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