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What changed in the AI platforms and hardware this site covers — a release, a price, a limit, a withdrawn feature — each item checked against the vendor’s own announcement before it is published.

Last machine check against the sources:

  1. Apple's 14-inch MacBook Pro now comes with the M6 chip, with up to 32GB of memory read at 170GB/s

    Apple's 14-inch MacBook Pro now comes with the M6 chip, as well as with the M5 Pro or the M5 Max.

  2. Ollama 0.40.12 adds Liquid AI's LFM3 models and a 2B d1 decision model, on Apple hardware first

    Ollama 0.40.12 adds LFM3, Liquid AI's new family of small models built for local agents, tool calling and structured output, and a 2B size of Liquid AI's d1 decision models, built on LFM3.

  3. OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, at half GPT-6.1 Sol's price on every line of the pricing table

    OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, model id `gpt-6.1-terra`, on 26 October 2026: a fast, efficient model for visual reasoning, precise computer use and clear, natural writing, on the Responses and Chat Completions endpoints.

  4. llama.cpp 0.8.0 adds the LFM3 family and lets the server listen and speak through /v1/realtime and /tts

    llama.cpp 0.8.0 adds LiquidAI's LFM3 family of models — text, vision, audio and omni — and lets the server take speech in and give speech back through two new endpoints, /v1/realtime and /tts, with a new experimental streaming-audio API underneath.

  5. Ollama 0.40.11 teaches Phonon to read symbols, numbers and links aloud, imports its voices, and fixes two problems for coding tools

    Ollama 0.40.11 is out, and most of what it changes is in how Phonon, its text-to-speech model, reads text aloud.

  6. Ollama 0.40.10 adds Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B, the small Bolt that also runs on Apple Silicon

    Ollama 0.40.10 adds Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B, NVIDIA's smaller, Gemma 4-based vision-language model for fast local conversations, image understanding and tool use.

  7. Ollama 0.40.9 adds speech with Phonon on Apple Silicon and d3 decision models, and brings Flint to Linux and Windows

    Ollama 0.40.9 can now speak: on a Mac with Apple Silicon, it generates speech with a model called Phonon.

  8. OpenAI makes the Decisions API generally available: prompt caching, JSON input and up to 400 questions per request

    OpenAI's Decisions API is now generally available with gpt-6-luna, on v1/decisions; its API changelog lists the change on 22 October 2026.

  9. Ollama 0.40.8 adds Flint, Recursive's model for coding agents, on Macs only for now

    Ollama 0.40.8 adds one model, Flint, which brings Recursive's coding model to Ollama — and for now it runs only on a Mac: the release note says Flint is supported on macOS and that support for other GPUs will come in a later release.

  10. OpenAI lets you choose which service tiers each API project can use

    OpenAI now lets you choose which service tiers each API project can use, in Platform settings, in an entry its changelog dates 21 October 2026.

  11. Ollama 0.40.7 fixes Responses conversations for Codex and lets more draft models speed up replies

    Ollama 0.40.7 is a fix release for people who drive Ollama from coding tools: it repairs two faults in its OpenAI-compatible Responses interface, one of which showed up with Codex, lets more draft models speed up replies through speculative decoding, and lists a new decision model, Perplexity's pplx-decider.

  12. OpenAI adds 12-hour prompt caching to the Responses API, with cache writes at 2.5x the input price

    OpenAI's API changelog for 20 October 2026 says that you can now choose 12-hour prompt caching in the API, listed under v1/responses.

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  13. Ollama 0.40.6 stops leaving runners behind on Windows and opens Q2_0 model files

    Ollama 0.40.6 is a small release with two fixes that matter to two different groups of people.

  14. Ollama 0.40.5 brings NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super and its smaller sibling, Bolt

    Ollama 0.40.5 adds two NVIDIA models you can run on your own machine: Nemotron 3.5 Super, a vision-language model for coding, reasoning, tool use and reading documents, and Bolt, a smaller sibling tuned to fit a 24 GB NVIDIA graphics card.

  15. OpenAI opens prompt-to-voice to all API customers and adds nine voices to GPT-Live

    OpenAI released prompt-to-voice for all API customers; its API changelog lists it on 16 October 2026, against `gpt-live-1`, `v1/audio/voices` and `v1/live/sessions`.

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  16. OpenAI's GPT-Live can now call the Decisions API itself, so your app decides while the user is still speaking

    OpenAI added a native Decisions integration to GPT-Live, for gpt-live-1 and gpt-6-luna on v1/live/sessions; its API changelog lists it on 15 October 2026.

  17. llama.cpp 0.7.0 moves the server to port 9931 and adds a GPU cache for MoE experts kept in host memory

    llama.cpp 0.7.0 moves the port llama-server listens on by default from 8080 to 9931.

  18. Ollama 0.40.4 lets you ask decision models questions straight from the terminal

    Ollama 0.40.4 brings decision models to the command line: you can now use them directly from the terminal with `ollama run`, to ask a yes/no question, sort a piece of text into labels, or score it against a rubric.

  19. Ollama 0.40.3 pauses the background model upgrade that 0.40.2 brought in

    Ollama 0.40.3 pauses the background model upgrade that arrived with 0.40.2, and the reason given is the speed of embedding and other requests.

  20. Ollama 0.35 adds decision models that answer with choices, probabilities and scores instead of text

    Ollama 0.35.0 adds decision models, served on your own machine through `/v1/systemone`, an endpoint the release page says is based on TypeSafe's Jev API.

  21. Ollama 0.40 runs supported models on MLX by default on Apple Silicon

    Ollama 0.40.0 changes the engine that runs your models on an Apple Silicon Mac: model architectures that the MLX runtime supports now run on MLX automatically.

  22. Ollama 0.40.2 upgrades your models in the background and keeps the originals as backups

    Ollama 0.40.2 upgrades the models you downloaded with earlier versions in the background, the first time you run each one, for better performance and compatibility when they run on llama.cpp.

  23. OpenAI adds Ultrafast mode to GPT-6.1 Sol, at six times the Standard price and with EU data residency

    OpenAI added Ultrafast mode for GPT-6.1 Sol to the Responses API on 8 October 2026.

  24. OpenAI cuts its API usage tiers from five to three — Build, Launch and Grow

    OpenAI has simplified its API usage tiers from five to three — Build, Launch and Grow — in an entry its changelog dates 6 October 2026.

  25. OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol, at GPT-6 Sol's input and output prices and half its cached-input price

    OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol, model id `gpt-6.1-sol`, on 29 September 2026, for complex coding and professional work at a lower cost than GPT-6 Astra.

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  26. OpenAI releases the Decisions API in beta, typed answers from gpt-6-luna on v1/decisions

    OpenAI released the Decisions API in beta with gpt-6-luna, on a new endpoint, v1/decisions; its API changelog lists it on 6 October 2026.

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  27. llama.cpp 0.6.0 adds GLM-5.3-Flash and Clef, a decision-model API in the server, and new Metal kernels

    llama.cpp 0.6.0 introduces a new extended batch API, adds GLM-5.3-Flash, the Clef decision model and MTP speculative decoding for Qwen4Exp, gives the server a /v1/systemone API for decision models, rebuilds the Web UI around the Hugging Face Hub, adds flash-attention kernels for Metal and Vulkan, and moves ggml to v0.26.0.

  28. OpenAI fixes a bug that degraded image understanding in GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna

    OpenAI has fixed a bug in image encoding that degraded image understanding in GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, and its changelog dates the fix 25 September.

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  29. OpenAI shuts down the Sora 2 video models and the Videos API, with no replacement

    OpenAI has shut down the Sora 2 video models and the Videos API: since 24 September 2026 they are no longer available.

  30. llama.cpp 0.5.0 lets the server listen on several addresses and reads sampling settings from the environment

    llama.cpp 0.5.0 focuses on backend performance and correctness, broader model coverage, and more robust server and router operation.

  31. OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, and halves the price of both tiers

    OpenAI's API changelog recorded on 22 September 2026 that it [released GPT-6 Sol, model id gpt-6-sol, and GPT-6 Luna, model id gpt-6-luna].

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  32. OpenAI lets an administrator decide who may create an API key

    OpenAI's API changelog recorded on 15 September 2026 that it [added API key creation governance controls at the organization and project levels].

  33. OpenAI makes Prompt Cache Diagnostics generally available

    OpenAI's Prompt Cache Diagnostics is now generally available in the Responses API, for GPT-5.6 and later supported models.

  34. llama.cpp 0.4.1 adds three model architectures and replaces its memory flags with --load-mode

    llama.cpp 0.4.1 adds Maple 20B-A1B, Tencent Hy 4 and Spark2.5 support, improves JSON schema handling, chat parsing, logging and server child-process management, and updates ggml to v0.24.0.