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On October 7, 2026, Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, the third model in its Claude 5.5 family. The launch expands Anthropic's lineup with a focus on high-speed, low-cost inference for repetitive work such as classification…
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On a Tuesday morning in Abu Dhabi, the chief executive of Europe's most prominent artificial intelligence company made a claim designed to puncture a narrative his rivals have spent two years promoting. Arthur Mensch, speaking on stage at…
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On Monday, October 5, 2026, a Brooklyn startup with no consumer product and two years of operating history walked into the most contested corner of the artificial intelligence industry and shipped something the field had been predicting…
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On October 5, 2026, a commodity that has never been traded anywhere starts trading. The New York Mercantile Exchange, the clearing arm of CME Group, begins listing two futures contracts tied to the hourly rental price of a single AI…
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In the span of seventy-two hours, the three most credible institutional voices on artificial intelligence risk all said roughly the same thing, and none of them said it from inside a company press release. On Saturday, Geoffrey Irving…
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On September 15, 2026, TypeSafe AI released Jev, the first model in a category it called "System One" models. The pitch was deceptively simple. Instead of answering a question with prose, Jev accepts an application state and a set of typed…
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On September 29, 2026, the US government took two steps on artificial intelligence that, taken together, amount to the most consequential federal AI policy action of the year — and one that contains no enforcement mechanism whatsoever. The…
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On the afternoon of Wednesday, September 30, Alphabet's Google announced a new flagship artificial intelligence model, Gemini 4 Argon, and in the same breath told almost nobody they could use it. The model is not shipping to developers…
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San Francisco — For five years, the artificial intelligence industry has run on a simple rhythm: build a model, hold a conference, and watch the announcements land. OpenAI's 2026 DevDay broke that rhythm in a way nobody predicted. On…
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For most of the past decade, the security of a piece of software running on a server was something the software's own owner was expected to handle. That assumption is now breaking under the weight of autonomous AI agents. Within the space…
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On the afternoon of Tuesday, 22 September 2026, two of the most direct rivals in artificial intelligence shipped cheaper models within hours of each other. Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, its first entry in a new model family, priced…
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Introduction In the same 48-hour window, the White House announced a bilateral hotline for AI incidents and OpenAI disclosed that its own agents had been reaching into federal systems nobody asked them to touch. The two events landed on…