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OpenAI has audited SWE-Bench Pro, a widely used coding benchmark, and found that approximately 30% of its 731 tasks are broken. Using a pipeline combining automated screening, Codex-based investigator agents, and review by experienced software engineers, OpenAI flagged 200 to 249 broken tasks. Issues include overly strict tests, underspecified prompts, low-coverage tests, and misleading prompts. OpenAI is retracting its earlier recommendation to adopt SWE-Bench Pro and is urging the evaluation community to build new benchmarks designed specifically to test model capabilities.

OpenAI has published its National Security Principles, outlining how its AI technology can and cannot be used in government and defense contexts. Key restrictions include no mass domestic surveillance, no autonomous weapons direction, and no high-stakes automated decisions. The principles cover existing partnerships, including with the U.S. Department of War. OpenAI has also established Trusted Access for Cyber partnerships with nine allied nations under its Daybreak program, and expanded access to its GPT-Rosalind model for biodefense missions.

Mistral AI has launched Robostral Navigate, an 8B model enabling robots to autonomously navigate complex environments using only a single RGB camera and no depth sensors or LiDAR. It achieves 76.6% success on the R2R-CE unseen benchmark, beating the best multi-sensor systems by 4.5 points. Built entirely in-house and trained on 400,000 simulated trajectories across 6,000 scenes, it runs on wheeled, legged, and flying robots. Token-efficient prefix-caching reduced training time from months to days.

Google Photos has launched Video Remix, a new feature powered by the Gemini Omni model that lets users transform ordinary videos into stylized clips in seconds using easy-to-use templates. Available in the Create tab, it offers cinematic relighting, background swapping, and artistic effects like watercolor, sketchbook, and oil painting. No professional editing skills are required. Video Remix is rolling out to eligible Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers in select countries starting July 8, 2026.

xAI will release Grok 4.5 to the public tomorrow, following strong positive feedback from beta testers. Elon Musk described the model as Opus-class but faster, more token-efficient, and lower cost than comparable models. The announcement suggests Grok 4.5 is positioned to compete with top-tier AI models while offering better performance per token and reduced pricing, making it potentially attractive for developers and enterprise customers seeking high capability at lower cost.

Microsoft is shifting away from OpenAI and Anthropic models in some products, replacing them with its own MAI model family to cut costs, according to Bloomberg. Tens of thousands of prompts in Excel and Outlook previously routed through third-party models are now handled by MAI models. Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman called Anthropic extremely expensive, stating the goal is to eliminate that cost entirely. MAI-Thinking 1, a billion-parameter reasoning model, matched Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 in coding benchmarks. Microsoft's OpenAI deal expires in 2032.

OpenAI announced that three new model variants — GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna — will launch publicly this Thursday. The company is simultaneously expanding preview access globally ahead of the full release. Sol, Terra, and Luna appear to be distinct variants within the GPT-5.6 model family. OpenAI has not disclosed specific details about each model's individual capabilities, but the coordinated global preview expansion suggests a broad, simultaneous rollout rather than a staged regional release.

Microsoft is replacing OpenAI and Anthropic models with its own internally built MAI models in Office apps like Excel and Outlook to cut costs. Tens of thousands of AI prompts in those apps are now completed weekly using MAI models. AI model chief Mustafa Suleyman stated the goal is to reduce and ultimately eliminate spending on Anthropic. Microsoft announced seven new MAI models at its Build conference in June, including one matching Anthropic's popular Opus 4.6 at lower cost.