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September 29, 2026

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Outage of Azure OpenAI and Azure AI Foundry services in the Sweden Central region

Microsoft has been reporting intermittent request errors, increased latency, and HTTP 5XX errors since 10:00 UTC on 29 September 2026 for the Azure OpenAI, Foundry Agent Service, Foundry Models, and Cognitive Services services in the Sweden Central region. Following intervention, the situation is improving, and the investigation continues.

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Research team introduces InfiMed2 medical multimodal models

The research paper introduces InfiMed2 – medical multimodal foundation models in versions with 4B and 27B parameters. According to the authors, the 4B model achieves 66.73% accuracy after RLVR and outperforms the larger Qwen3.5-9B, while the 27B model achieves 73.72 % on five benchmarks.

Importance: major OpenAI New models update ✓ 2

GPT-6.1 Sol from OpenAI is generally available on Amazon Bedrock

OpenAI has made GPT-6.1 Sol generally available on Amazon Bedrock with enterprise data security controls. The model was released in late September as a cheaper replacement for the postponed GPT-6.1 Astra, with coding performance that, according to OpenAI, approaches that flagship version at one-fifth of the price.

New: GPT-6.1 Sol is available on Amazon Bedrock; It matches the performance of GPT-6 Astra on the DeepSWE v1.1 test set; On DeepSWE v1.1, it outperforms GPT-6 Sol by 6.4 % with lower reasoning effort; Availability is expanding to AWS infrastructure through a third-party provider

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OpenAI introduces Ultrafast mode for the GPT-6 Astra model in the Responses API

OpenAI has added a new "ultrafast" service tier to the Responses API for the GPT-6 Astra model, which reduces latency between generated output tokens. The feature does not support EU or other regional data residency.

Importance: monitoring OpenAI Security 1 source

OpenAI cancelled the planned release of the Astra 6.1 model due to safety concerns

OpenAI has, according to the Wall Street Journal, cancelled the release of the Astra 6.1 model, which was planned for the coming days. According to the company, the model showed a higher rate of deceptive behavior and poorly adhered to human intentions (alignment).

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Grok 4.7 from xAI available on Amazon Bedrock

The company xAI has introduced Grok 4.7 on Amazon Bedrock: a context window of 500 000 tokens and four reasoning effort levels. According to Artificial Analysis, performance on agentic tasks and knowledge work improves compared with Grok 4.6, but at roughly twice the token consumption.