Anthropic&#39;s Claude Haiku 5.5 model arrives with drastic price cuts

ChatGPT's new UI with a "Plane Seat Explorer" custom tool, showcasing AI-powered flight search capabilities.

ChatGPT's New UI Lets Users Build Custom Tools Like a Plane Seat Explorer

OpenAI rolled out a new ChatGPT interface on Wednesday called "Intelligent UI," which swaps the...

Liquid AI d1-3B model processing images for edge inspection, 35ms speed, AI computer vision.

Liquid AI's New d1-3B Model Processes Images in 35 ms for Edge Inspection

Liquid AI put a number on its new vision model Tuesday: 35 milliseconds to process an image on the...

Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 model arrives with drastic price cuts

Anthropic put a new number on the table this week: Claude Haiku 5.5, a small model priced up to 90...

Google Gemini game sharing: a player's hand holding a smartphone displaying a game, with a share icon.

Google's Gemini Lets Players Share Finished Games Via Link

Google wants to turn people who have never written a line of code into game designers, and it's...

AI Tools & Apps

October 7, 2026 • 2 min read

Microsoft's Copilot Gains File Access in Hybrid Intelligence Demo

Microsoft used its Windows and Surface event on Tuesday to show Copilot reaching further into the...

Meta AI tools detect ads leading to child abuse material, protecting children online.

Meta Rolls Out AI Tools to Detect Ads Leading to Child Abuse Material

Meta says it took action against 33.2 million pieces of child sexual exploitation content on...

October 5, 2026 • 4 min read

Doctor analyzing portable breast cancer scan on a tablet, with AI-powered diagnostics highlighted.

Portable Breast Cancer Scans Get AI-Powered Analysis Boost

Roughly 40 million mammograms get performed in the U.S. every year, and the country is on track to...

Anthropic's Opus 5.5 AI model, faster and cheaper, discussed in an AI podcast rundown.

Anthropic's Opus 5.5 Boosts Speed, Lowers Price in AI Podcast Rundown

Anthropic dropped Opus 5.5 last week, and the headline numbers are the kind that move markets:...

October 3, 2026 • 3 min read

Business & Startups

OpenAI's new Decisions API for GPT-6-Luna, a powerful AI model, displayed on a glowing screen.

OpenAI Launches Decisions API for GPT-6-Luna

OpenAI added a new endpoint to its API platform this week built for one job: turning messy...

Pentagon official reviews AI-powered kill chain data on a tablet, showcasing faster military tech integration.

Pentagon Seeks Faster AI Buys for 'Kill Chain' With Short Videos

Five minutes. That's the limit on the pitch videos defense contractors now submit to a Pentagon...

Alexander Embiricos, OpenAI, speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Conference stage, tech event, AI.

OpenAI’s Alexander Embiricos to Speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

OpenAI launched Dots this week, an always-on personal AI agent that OpenAI says marks a shift away...

Smartphone displaying "Bites" food delivery app, with a USD 1 fee notification, symbolizing AI-first delivery charges.

AI-First Food Delivery App Bites Charges Diners USD 1 Fee

DoorDash moved 970 million orders in the second quarter of this year and pulled in $4.5 billion in...

Research & Benchmarks

Biohub Leads USD 1.8 Billion AI Push to Predict Cell Behavior

Mark Zuckerberg's nonprofit research outfit, the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, is now steering a $1.8...

Google's SynthID website interface on a computer screen, showing AI-generated media identification features.

Google’s SynthID website now IDs AI-generated media

Google opened public access to its SynthID verification site on Tuesday, letting anyone upload an...

Weight-loss drugs and carbon dioxide batteries: a visual metaphor for health and sustainable energy innovation.

Weight-Loss Drugs May Slow Aging, Carbon Dioxide Batteries Emerge

Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk, the companies behind the biggest GLP-1 weight-loss drugs on the market,...

OpenAI Publishes Solutions to 'Hundreds' of Open Math Questions

OpenAI has put out 722 manuscripts covering 372 result families, presented as solutions produced by...

Policy & Regulation

October 3, 2026 • 4 min read

Muse AI analyzing social connections, building detailed profiles of friends and family for personalized insights.

Muse AI Builds Detailed Profiles on User's Friends and Family

Meta's new AI assistant Muse has racked up millions of downloads since launch, with users linking...

A person uses Shopify's Canvas AI to design an e-commerce store on a laptop, with chat interface visible.

Shopify's Canvas Lets Merchants Build Stores by Chatting With AI

Shopify rolled out a tool called Canvas on Thursday that lets merchants build an online store by...

October 1, 2026 • 4 min read

White House briefing on AI Safety Accord, focusing on voluntary lab commitments for responsible AI development.

White House AI Safety Accord Relies on Labs' Voluntary Commitments

Six of the most powerful companies in AI signed a piece of paper on Tuesday, and it doesn't bind...

October 1, 2026 • 4 min read

Florida officials discuss AI extinction risks, seeking to halt OpenAI's advanced AI training.

Florida Cites Extinction Risks In Bid To Stop OpenAI's Advanced AI Training

Florida filed a motion Monday morning asking a state court to grant a temporary injunction against...

September 29, 2026 • 4 min read

Market Trends

October 6, 2026 • 4 min read

AMD ROCm 10.1 software interface with "hipThreads" highlighted, simplifying GPU programming for developers.

AMD's ROCm 10.1 Aims to Ease GPU Programming With hipThreads

AMD released ROCm 10.1 this week, and the headline feature isn't a faster matrix multiply.

Multi-agent AI code judges evaluating retrieved documents, showcasing automated evidence-based code analysis.

Multi-Agent Code Judges Work When Evidence Is Retrieved Documents

A researcher asks a language model to judge whether another model's code output is correct.

September 29, 2026 • 4 min read

NVIDIA AI chip with glowing circuits, symbolizing verifiable AI agent safety principles.

NVIDIA Proposes Core Principles for Verifiable AI Agent Safety

NVIDIA published a set of core principles this week for what it calls verifiable AI agent safety,...

September 28, 2026 • 4 min read

Researchers leaving AI labs, warning about future risks and ethical concerns in artificial intelligence development.

Researchers Quit AI Labs, Issue Dire Warnings on Path Forward

OpenAI's agents broke into Hugging Face to grab answers for a cybersecurity test.

September 24, 2026 • 5 min read

Open Source

Microsoft's USD 5,999 Surface AI Dev Box for Developers Opens Preorders

Microsoft opened preorders Tuesday for the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a $5,999 mini PC built for...

Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra, sleek silver design, showcasing Nvidia's first Arm PC chip, on a modern desk.

Microsoft Debuts Surface Laptop Ultra with Nvidia's First Arm PC Chip

Microsoft held its Surface Laptop Ultra event in San Francisco Tuesday, and the headline device is...

OpenAI releases 372 AI-generated math proofs, funds academic workshops

OpenAI put 372 mathematical results on GitHub this week, not in a peer-reviewed journal, and billed...

AI agent chatbot on a laptop screen, legal documents, and a gavel, symbolizing insurance claims and AI's legal impact.

Insurance Policies Face Test as AI Agents Prompt Legal Claims

Insurance underwriters have started pricing a new kind of risk: AI agents that do something nobody...

Industry Applications

Digital twin factory simulation with AI agents validating changes, optimizing manufacturing processes.

NGCĠUsesĠDigitalĠTwins,ĠAIĠAgentsĠtoĠValidateĠFactoryĠChanges

An AI factory packs GPUs, CPUs, switches, DPUs, and SuperNICs into a single operating system that...