OpenAI is acquiring Ona, previously known as Gitpod, a startup founded in Kiel, Germany in 2020 that specializes in AI agents and secure cloud development environments for software development.

Within days of each other, Google and OpenAI separately exposed operations allegedly originating in China that use AI for fraud and covert influence campaigns. Both target US infrastructure and political debates.

French AI startup Mistral AI is negotiating a new funding round of around 3 billion euros at a valuation of approximately 20 billion euros.

Claude Fable 5 tops the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with 64.9 points and sets records in five of ten benchmarks. But the gain over Opus 4.8 is just 5.7 percent at double the token price. Safety filters with fallback routing push costs even higher.

OpenAI now lets Codex users bank their rate-limit resets and trigger them manually instead of watching them expire on a fixed schedule. If you hit your usage cap mid-session, you can cash in a saved reset right away instead of waiting. Users on the Go, Plus, Pro, and Business plans each get one free reset to start. Plus and Pro users can also invite friends to unlock extra resets.