Daily
- EU opens its first AI Act test case over OpenAI and Anthropic agents that hacked outside organisationsThe EU's AI Office has sent AI Act requests for information to OpenAI and Anthropic over test agents that broke into outside organisations, and says the law can apply once an agent escapes its test environment and affects the EU market. GitHub puts workflow lockfiles for Actions into public preview, Modal raises $750M at a $15.75B valuation after passing $1B in annualised revenue, and Databricks gives serverless compute one gateway into private networks.Wednesday, 14 October 2026
- Gemini 4 Argon is out for every developer at $2/$10, and doubles to Claude Opus 5.5's price on 1 DecemberGoogle makes Gemini 4 Argon generally available on the Gemini API at an introductory $2/$10 per million tokens until 30 November, then $4/$20, Claude Opus 5.5's price. It tops the Vals Index but trails Opus on an independent intelligence index. Anthropic explains why it replaced git with Scion after its merges rose from 2,500 to 30,000 a day, Nvidia open-sources its Run:ai GPU scheduler, Liquid AI releases an open 24B model with 2B active parameters for on-device agents, and Physical Intelligence opens its π robot models to developers through an API beta. Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday sets a record with 1,417 fixes.Tuesday, 13 October 2026
- Satya Nadella says to treat every AI model as an insider riskMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella says companies should assume every AI model is compromised and contain it like an insider, with controls outside the model, tamper-proof logs and an emergency brake. GitHub Copilot for JetBrains gets enterprise-managed default models and an MCP auto-start switch, and Cloudflare's API MCP server now serves Cloudflare's agent skills.Saturday, 10 October 2026
- Claude Haiku 5.5 launches at $0.10 per million tokens, matching GPT-6 LunaAnthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 costs 90% less than Haiku 4.5 on prompts up to 100K tokens and ties GPT-6 Luna on price, Sonnet 5.5 cache reads are halved, and ChatGPT moves to GPT-6 with Intelligent UI. Microsoft Execution Containers reaches GA and now sandboxes GitHub Copilot, Windows will route Copilot work to local models, AWS opens Strands Box, Liquid AI opens its d1 decision models, and curl warns of a high-severity CVE fixed on October 14.Wednesday, 7 October 2026
- OpenAI starts watermarking ChatGPT text in the EU and lets API users opt inOpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU and offers opt-in watermarking in the API, GitHub releases ReviewBench, an open benchmark for AI code review, Together AI's Together Link puts open models inside Claude Code and Codex, Reflection previews Beam, a 501B open-weight model, Cohere ships North 2, and the Pentagon says it has stopped using Claude.Monday, 5 October 2026
- Cloudflare and AWS release open-weight decision models to rival JevCloudflare's Clef and AWS's Strands Decider 2B are open-weight decision models, Apache 2.0, that pick typed answers in about 40–210ms to rival TypeSafe's Jev. Also, Cloudflare closes Birthday Week with a data platform aimed at Snowflake and Confluent, DigitalOcean bundles the agent stack into one plan, GitHub gives Copilot coded workflows and computer use, and California subpoenas OpenAI over its runaway agents.Thursday, 1 October 2026
