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Research2026-08-02 · source-backed
Choukhmane, Lin and Akuzawa with Stanford's de Silva tested GPT-5.2, GPT-5.6 and Gemini 3 Flash. Advice produced sizable savings buffers for people over 30 but degraded on life-change adjustments and active rebalancing. Performance jumped substantially with structured prompts carrying explicit assumptions, because "regular people are not writing their prompts the way a finance professor is." That capability-versus-elicitation gap shows up in every domain, and it's the strongest argument for prompt scaffolding in consumer products.
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Google's Gemini 3.2 Flash appeared in the Gemini iOS app and AI Studio before any official announcement. It showed up on LM Arena benchmarks. And the numbers are real: 92% of GPT-5.5's coding and reasoning performance with sub-200ms latency at roughly 1/15th the cost. Source:...
GPT-5.6 Luna went to $0.20 input / $1.20 output per million tokens on July 30. That's an 80% cut. Terra dropped 20%. Luna's input now undercuts Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite ($0.25/$1.50) and sits at one-fifth of Claude Haiku 4.5's $1 input. Simon Willison covered the announcement and...
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The first systematic study of deceptive UI impact on LLM web agents, accepted at IEEE S&P 2026, tested against real e-commerce, streaming, and news dark patterns. Gemini 2.5 Pro: 65.78% susceptibility. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 53.79%. GPT-4o: 51.26%. Guardrail models and prompt post...
OpenAI shipped the first model family explicitly designed for subagent pipelines. GPT-5.4 mini features a 400K context window, scores 54.4% on SWE-Bench Pro (vs. the flagship's 57.7%), and handles computer use at 72.1% on OSWorld — at $0.75 input / $4.50 output per million tok...
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 on April 23, six weeks after 5.4. The capability jump is real: 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 vs Claude Opus 4.7's 69.4%. The Pro tier nearly doubles Opus 4.7 on FrontierMath Tier 4 at 39.6% vs 22.9%. It uses 40% fewer tokens on Codex tasks while matching 5...
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