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AMAZON BEDROCK$1.68 / $5.28GLM 5.3 per million input and output tokens, f
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Bedrock adds GLM 5.3 for approved customers and ships Nova 2.5 Sonic for voice agents

Two model additions landed on Bedrock on the same day. Z.ai's GLM 5.3 arrives with a 1 million token context and a listed price of $1.68 per million input tokens, but only for customers AWS approves. Nova 2.5 Sonic is the new speech-to-speech model, in four regions, at the same price as its predecessor, with no published benchmark. The open source Strands framework made its voice agents generally available alongside it.

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Images & videomedium signal

Gemini 3.8 Live can now answer as a talking video avatar, and Google bills the video only while it speaks

Google made Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar generally available in Gemini Enterprise on September 24, 2026, with US and EU endpoints. The model replies through a lip-synced video character while it listens, watches a camera or a shared screen, and calls tools in the background. Avatar video costs $1 per million tokens at 6,192 tokens for each second of speech. By our arithmetic, that comes to about $0.37 per spoken minute before audio, input, and context charges.

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A diagram of Session Share: selected conversation groups on one OpenClaw installation reach a paired installation as read-only text, while subagents, tool activity and reasoning stay behind.
Codingmedium signal

OpenClaw 2026.9.5 reloads plugins without stopping the Gateway and shares conversations read-only

Installing, reloading, updating, or removing a plugin no longer takes the whole installation offline. Session Share hands a chosen group of conversations to a teammate on another paired installation as text they can read but not continue. Updates now validate the next version against a private copy of the setup while the current Gateway keeps running. The conversation database changes in this release even with archiving switched off, so a verified backup before upgrading is the only way back.

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Codingstrong signal

OpenAI turns the harness behind Codex into an Agents API

On September 10, 2026, OpenAI opened the Agents API in public beta, giving any developer the harness and infrastructure that already run Codex. One call creates an agent session with its task, model, tools and execution environment, and the compaction, tool search and subagent orchestration come with it. The same day, the GPT-Live-1 voice model reached the API at $0.05 per minute for the voice layer. For anyone building agents, the orchestration layer is now a purchased component rather than a written one.

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