10 deployments dated July 27 to August 2, 2026 are in The Deploy Log: 3 leads and 7 in Tools and products, from 5 publishers. They include ChatGPT for Academic Researchers from OpenAI, GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra from OpenAI, Gemini Robotics ER 2 from Google DeepMind, DeepSeek V4 Flash from Vercel, Faster Vercel deployments from Vercel and 5 others. Every item sourced to the publisher's own page.
OpenAI is giving 100,000 researchers at selected academic institutions free access to frontier models including GPT-5.6 Sol Pro, starting with 10,000 researchers this summer and expanding through 2027, with access already available at the Institute for Advanced Study and École normale supérieure.
GPT-5.6 Luna now costs 80% less and GPT-5.6 Terra 20% less, with API pricing at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens for Luna, and $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens for Terra starting July 30.
Gemini Robotics ER 2 is now publicly available via the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, and in private preview on Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, with 57.4% accuracy on progress classification and 91.3% accuracy with 0.96s mean absolute distance on moment-finding.
DeepSeek V4 Flash now runs on updated weights by default on AI Gateway, scoring 82.7 on Terminal-Bench, up 25.8 points from 56.9 in the April preview, with no change to the model ID or your code.
Vercel deployments are now up to 7 seconds faster end to end, with up to 5 seconds of fixed platform overhead removed from every build and up to 2 seconds more saved from the newest Vercel CLI.
Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 from xAI is now available on AI Gateway as a speech-to-speech voice model that reasons in parallel with speech and fires tool calls sooner with fewer reasoning tokens.
Sign in with ChatGPT adds your ChatGPT account as an authentication option for Vercel, available when adding the Vercel plugin to ChatGPT and when signing in to Vercel or v0.
Notion's AI Meeting Notes can now trigger Custom Agents to update trackers, post recaps, or file tickets automatically.
Notion added high contrast mode as a display option, available on desktop and web.
Apple Upgrade offers leasing for iPhone starting at $17.99 per month, Apple Watch at $11.99, Mac at $24.99, and iPad at $11.99, provided by Klarna.
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