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2026-07-31

How avatarin built a 24/7 retail agent with GPT-Realtime

avatarin uses OpenAI’s GPT-Realtime to give Yamada Denki shoppers 24/7 multilingual support. In two weeks, 30,000 people used the agent and 92% of survey responses were positive.

Source: OpenAI Blog

Top Stories

AI hedge fund Situational Awareness may have sold its public portfolio, but it still has its Anthropic shares

The former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has cards to play.

Read more at TechCrunch AI

Okta buys AI security startup Permiso — source says for about $200M

The deal gives Okta identity threat detection capabilities as enterprises seek to secure AI agents and other non-human identities across cloud environments.

Read more at TechCrunch AI

Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Is Missing Some Key Names: OpenAI and Anthropic

This week on Uncanny Valley, we discuss the open- vs. closed-source debate in AI, key players in White House AI policy, and how to stop your chatbot logs from showing up in search-engine results.

Read more at Wired

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6

Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.

Read more at OpenAI Blog

How enabling two settings tripled our scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark

How two API settings improved GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3, boosting scores and efficiency by retaining reasoning and enabling compaction.

Read more at OpenAI Blog

Quick Bytes

Accelerating scientific discovery with ChatGPT for Academic ResearchersOpenAI Blog

Anthropic says its own AI models breached three companies during security testsTechCrunch AI

A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attackMIT Tech Review

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