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Google DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics 2 for whole-body control, while OpenAI slashes GPT-5.6 pricing.

1. Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6
   OpenAI has reduced pricing for GPT-5.6, lowering the cost barrier for running enterprise-scale agentic workflows.
   OpenAIlab2 outletsopenai.com
2. Google DeepMind’s new AI model can control a robot’s entire body
   Gemini Robotics 2 expands from upper-body manipulation to full whole-body control for humanoid robots.
   The Verge AIpress2 outletstheverge.com
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3. How enabling two settings tripled our scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark
   Enabling reasoning retention and compaction API settings tripled GPT-5.6 scores on the difficult ARC-AGI-3 benchmark.
   OpenAIlabopenai.com
4. NVIDIA Exemplar Cloud: Lessons for Unlocking Full Performance on AI Infrastructure
   NVIDIA details how identical H100 and GB200 clusters yield different training throughputs due to infrastructure configuration.
   NVIDIA Developerlabdeveloper.nvidia.com
5. Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac
   A new open-source engine runs the 26B Gemma 4 model locally on M-series Macs using only 2GB RAM.
   Hacker News AIHN875 pts on HNgithub.com
6. New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption
   Updates to the Model Context Protocol (MCP) establish stability policies to prevent sudden feature deprecation in enterprise setups.
   Ars Technica AIpressarstechnica.com
7. Tencent Open-Sources AngelSpec: A Unified Training Framework for MTP and Block-Parallel Speculative Decoding on Hy3 Models
   Tencent's open-source AngelSpec framework enables training of speculative-decoding draft models across six different architectures.
   Marktechpostnewslettermarktechpost.com
8. A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack
   New research presented at ICML mathematically demonstrates that LLMs cannot be fully secured against adversarial prompt injection.
   The Algorithm (MIT TR)newslettertechnologyreview.com
9. Launch HN: Tokenless (YC S26) – Automatic model switching to save money
   Tokenless automates model switching dynamically to optimize API costs without manual routing logic.
   Hacker News AIHN69 pts on HNusetokenless.com
10. Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word
    Researchers demonstrated self-propagating document-borne AI worms that exploit Copilot for Word to infect other files.
    Hacker News AIHN377 pts on HNenklypesalt.com
11. GCC steering committee announces AI policy
    The GCC steering committee has officially established its policy on integrating AI-generated code into the compiler.
    Hacker News AIHN173 pts on HNlwn.net
12. Okta buys AI security startup Permiso — source says for about $200M
    Okta's $200M acquisition of Permiso targets the growing need to secure non-human identities and autonomous AI agents.
    TechCrunch AIpresstechcrunch.com