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Thursday, August 6, 2026
Today in AI: OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Pricing 80%, Meta Launches Muse Code Agent, Egnyte Scales Workflow Automation — August 6, 2026
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1releasebot.ioOpenAI dropped GPT-5.6 Luna input cost to $0.20/1M tokens (80% cut) and GPT-5.6 Terra to $2/1M tokens (20% cut), effective immediately. Pricing pressure from Claude Sonnet 5 and local models is forcing aggressive cost competition; developers should reassess inference budgets and batch workload economics.
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2www.manilatimes.netEgnyte shipped Bulk Extraction, Agent Builder, and Workflow Builder with embedded access controls and governance—no separate compliance layer required. Enterprise workflows now bake agent safety and audit trails into platform primitives; this model is spreading as regulatory baseline for production agent platforms.
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3benchlm.aiCurrent OpenAI tier stack: GPT-5.6 Sol $5/$30, Terra $2/$12, Luna $0.20/$1.20 (with cached-input and batch discounts). Today's 80% Luna cut reshuffles cost-per-quality math across inference, caching, and batch workflows; developers should run TCO recalculations on their agent and automation pipelines.