Hone on BriefTechNews.comhttps://brief-tech-news.com/tags/hone/Recent content in Hone on BriefTechNews.comHugoenCopyright &copy;2021 <br> Designed &amp; Developed by [Gethugothemes](https://gethugothemes.com/)Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:00:24 +0000OpenAI’s Ultrafast API, Google’s Gemini Agent, and a $60 M AI‑Agents Startuphttps://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-09-ai/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:00:24 +0000https://brief-tech-news.com/blogs/2026-10-09-ai/OpenAI dropped Ultrafast for GPT‑6.1 Sol, promising up to 8× faster inference at $12 / M input and $60 / M output tokens. Google unveiled Gemini Agent, a sandboxed, cost‑capped universal assistant for Workspace with real‑time routing and sector‑specific toolkits. Seed‑stage startup Hone raised $60 M to ship “autonomous engines” that run weeks‑long business processes. Meanwhile, research shows frontier models still stumble on open‑ended tasks, speculative decoding gets a hardware‑level boost, and NVIDIA open‑sourced a long‑video/robotics suite. OpenAI’s revenue outlook slipped $20 B, sparking fresh safety concerns.