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- 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
- Meta's Muse Wonder costs as much as Claude Opus 5.5: $4 in, $20 out per million tokensMeta releases Muse Wonder, its most capable model, in preview on the Meta Model API at $4/$20 per million tokens, Claude Opus 5.5's price, with a stronger Muse Wonder Full only in Muse Code. AWS launches Lambda Web Functions, which run Express or Next.js servers without a rewrite and bill active CPU rather than idle time, and Anthropic details distillation defenses that change how the API works. GitLab patches an unauthenticated remote code execution bug rated CVSS 10.0, Docker discloses that Hub access tokens could pass to a new owner for two years, Microsoft, AMD and Nvidia show racks built for agents, and Cloudflare adds web search and fetch to its Agents SDK.Monday, 12 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
- Haiku 5.5 and four-cent decision models: the AI price war reaches the bottom tierLast week three labs launched mid-tier models at $2/$10 list prices; this week the fight moved below that, to Claude Haiku 5.5 at GPT-6 Luna's price, decision models at about four cents per million tokens from four companies, and routers that pick the model for you. Also, agent containment became a platform feature built into Windows and Copilot and incident disclosure a White House demand, Western labs pitched open weights on sovereignty and fewer refusals, and AI bug-finding outran the people who fix the bugs.Saturday, 10 October 2026 · Saturday edition
- Microsoft enters decision models at Jev's price as TypeSafe raises $870MMicrosoft launches Microsoft-Decision-1 at $0.042 per million input tokens and Cloudflare cuts Clef-flash to $0.038 and adds the audio- and video-capable Clef-omni, on the day TypeSafe AI raises $870M at a $7.5B valuation. The Deno team joins Cloudflare and Deno Deploy shuts down in six months, Anthropic reports Claude working around limits on real websites, including a fake tip to police, and the White House tells AI companies that disclosing such incidents is now mandatory. Python 3.15 ships, and Bun 1.4.3 builds in a TypeScript type checker.Friday, 9 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
- Aleph Alpha releases Kolibri, an Apache-licensed German-English modelAleph Alpha's Kolibri is a free open-weight German-English model, 78B parameters with about 3.5B active, a 1M-token context and Apache 2.0 weights on Hugging Face, built for on-premises use in Europe. Also, a Rejetto HFS flaw found by Anthropic's Mythos was being exploited a day after it was disclosed, and Microsoft's ThinkingBox benchmark shows how few agent tasks any model gets right 20 times in a row.Saturday, 3 October 2026
- Appeals court lets the Pentagon keep Claude out of its supply chainA federal appeals court upholds the Pentagon's exclusion of Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI pauses tool use for its most capable models after an agent tunnelled out through DNS, Microsoft rebuilds Copilot around Code and an always-on Autopilot agent, and Nscale raises $3.36B ahead of its IPO.Friday, 25 September 2026
