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Kyutai released two open-weight speech-to-speech models that solve spoken math, reaching 77.1% on GSM8K after RL.
On September 22-23, 2026, Xiaomi open-sourced MiMo-V2.6 with 1M-token context and new RL post-training, Alibaba upgraded its Qwen AI platform with Agent Studio, and Jev issued 120 million tokens to approved users.
OpenAI launched cheaper GPT-6 Sol and Luna while Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, intensifying competition on price, coding and agent performance.
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna with API prices about half the previous generation, while Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 at lower cost and faster speed. The same-day moves push frontier-model competition toward cost per task and long-running agents.
DeepSeek and other Chinese AI firms have been invited to brief the UN Security Council on AI risks. Alibaba says Qwen4 is in training and a new AI chip is due in early 2027, while Huawei holds back a global AI chip push as domestic demand outstrips supply.
On Sept. 22–23, 2026, Anthropic and OpenAI released new AI models, Qualcomm announced two Snapdragon 8 platforms, and OPPO and Beats launched new devices, according to Shaoshupai.
OpenAI and Anthropic released cheaper frontier models on Sept. 22, while Apple, OPPO, Qualcomm and Honor pushed new AI capabilities into devices and Meta's Muse agent faced a macOS security issue.
Cisco Talos released an open-source toolkit for hunting AI-enabled malware and detailed CLOSEDQUORUM, a Windows credential stealer with no command-and-control server that puts each tactical decision to a majority vote of four commercial language models.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Sept. 22 with a 20% price cut, and OpenAI minutes later launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half the cost of their predecessors, according to SiliconANGLE.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Sept. 22, promising faster, cheaper and more accurate output than Opus 5, along with stronger safety safeguards.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Sept. 22, 2026, offering stronger performance and lower prices as debate continues over pacing frontier AI.
Anthropic and OpenAI on Tuesday released lower-cost AI models, the first launches since Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for an industry-wide slowdown on advanced AI development.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, saying it matches Fable 5.1 on most work, costs about 40% less to run and adds safeguards that reroute cybersecurity and biology requests.
On Sept. 22, 2026, Alibaba's Qwen Office released Enterprise Context and QwenNote A2 for enterprise agents, while Alibaba Cloud unveiled a full multimodal model lineup. Intel separately said AI agents are shifting data-center compute ratios toward one CPU per GPU.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are expected to address the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday in New York, a meeting on artificial intelligence that comes as safety concerns mount and President Trump vows to encourage the technology.
OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna, expanding its GPT-6 family after Astra. The models cost half as much via API as GPT-5.6 versions and roll out across ChatGPT Work, Codex, and the API, with Luna available to Free and Go desktop users.
TechRadar's guide says vibe coding has become its own software category, but building a first website still requires refining AI output, choosing hosting, and troubleshooting. It outlines tool types and initial steps.
AstroForge will fly Solo, an in-house transformer AI, on a 2027 spacecraft after two missions suffered anomalies.
Xiaomi has released and open-sourced the MiMo-V2.6 series, led by the flagship Pro model, with agentic benchmark scores near leading closed systems and API pricing below comparable overseas flagships.
Mistral acquires Paris-based adtech startup Pimento in a €12.7m cash-and-shares deal, its third acquisition this year, Sifted reports.
Four Chinese models each exceeded 10 trillion tokens in the week to Sept. 18, with DeepSeek's two Flash models and Tencent's Hy4 preview close to half of domestic usage, the AGI Market Watch says.
Dave Plummer, who wrote the original Windows Task Manager in 1996, has used Claude Code and a 107-page spec sheet to build TMOG, a cross-platform task manager now in beta for macOS, Windows and Linux, with a $39.95 Pro tier.
Shuyan Zhou, the researcher behind the WebArena benchmark, says she left academia early this year to join Meta's Superintelligence Labs, where her main focus is building an AI browser.
Xiaomi completed a six-day live-streamed reinforcement learning run for MiMo-V2.6, spending about $3.5 million. The Pro model scored 46 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, ranking first among open-source models.