Releasesby GlyphOpenAI Daybreak adds Blue and Red access tiers for defenders
Daybreak Blue gives approved defenders general-purpose models such as GPT-5.6 Sol for vulnerability discovery, code review and incident response, while Daybreak Red gives separately approved access to purpose-trained models.
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DCM Projects (General availability)
DCM Projects are now generally available and are no longer in Preview . DCM Projects enable a declarative approach to managing Snowflake objects as code. You define the desired target state of your databases, tables, tasks, and other Snowflake objects in definition files, and Snowflake determines and applies the necessary changes to reach that state.
Snowflake Native Apps: Cortex Agents and MCP servers (General availability)
Cortex Agents and MCP servers in Snowflake Native Apps are now generally available. Providers can create the following objects in an app’s setup script: Apps can also use inter-app communication so that one app’s agent calls another app’s agent or MCP server.
Tag automations (Beta)
Tag automations are now in Beta . A tag automation assigns or removes governed tags on the Unity Catalog tables or volumes that match conditions you define, so tags stay accurate as your data and metadata change.
Change data feed on materialized views (Beta)
You can now read a change data feed from a materialized view created in a Lakeflow pipeline or in Databricks SQL, using Databricks Runtime 18 LTS or above. Use this to replicate materialized view changes to destinations outside Databricks, or to keep a history of materialized view changes for auditing and reporting.
ai_search function (Beta)
The ai_search() SQL function retrieves information from one or more AI Search indexes configured as knowledge sources. Given a natural-language query, the function generates optimized search queries, retrieves and deduplicates results across sources, reranks them by relevance, and returns the most relevant documents.
AlloyDB can sync BigQuery tables in preview
BigQuery tables can be synced into AlloyDB once or on a periodic schedule, giving operational analytics low-latency transactional access to data lake data.
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OpenAI updates chat-latest to the newest ChatGPT model
The chat-latest snapshot now points to the latest model in ChatGPT for Plus and Pro users and will be updated regularly. OpenAI recommends GPT-5.6 Sol for production API usage.
OpenAI Fast mode supports long-context requests for GPT-5.6 models
Prompts over 272K tokens can now run in Fast mode on GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna, at up to 2.5x the speed of the Standard tier.
OpenAI Usage and Costs dashboards filter and group by API key
Usage and Costs dashboards and the Usage and Costs APIs now support an API key dimension for reporting and analysis.
OpenAI announces Ultrafast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol in limited preview
Ultrafast mode is a new API service tier for GPT-5.6 Sol that runs up to 14x faster than Standard processing, available to select customers.
OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna price 80% and Terra 20%, Fast mode replaces Priority
From July 30, GPT-5.6 Luna costs 80% less and Terra 20% less. Fast mode replaces Priority Processing, giving GPT-5.6 Sol up to 2.5x speed at twice the price, and priority requests map to it automatically.
OpenAI releases an official Terraform provider
The provider manages projects, users, groups, roles, service accounts, certificates, invitations and project rate limits as code, with import and drift detection through standard Terraform workflows.
OpenAI releases GPT Transcribe and GPT Live Transcribe
GPT Transcribe handles accurate file transcription and final transcripts of Realtime turns, while GPT Live Transcribe provides low-latency streaming. Both support transcription context, keyword hints and multiple expected languages.
OpenAI launches a Prompt Caching dashboard
The dashboard tracks cache hit rate over time, cache reads per write and the split of cache-read, cache-write and uncached tokens, filterable by model and service tier, to help improve caching efficiency.