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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
- Amazon is in talks to buy Decart, the AI startup Anthropic passed on, for about $7BAmazon is reportedly in talks to buy Decart, maker of the Lucy live video model, the Oasis world model and a chip-optimisation stack that runs on Trainium, for about $7 billion, a month after Anthropic dropped talks valued at up to $6 billion. Linus Torvalds publishes an experimental Linux page-cache patch series written with Claude Code that cuts the kernel cost of multi-threaded small reads about fourfold on his laptop. LineageOS 24.0 rebases on Android 17 and adds browser-based flashing tools.Sunday, 11 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
- Supabase buys Turso to give every agent its own databaseSupabase is acquiring Turso, the SQLite rewrite that hosts millions of idle databases per server; Turso keeps running and stays open source, and Glauber Costa leads Supabase's agent services. Also, Supabase ships a code-first platform for agents, Neon doubles free storage per project, Apple tightens macOS Full Disk Access because of AI agents, Anthropic puts $100M into training 10,000 "Frontier Deployed Engineers", Cloudflare unifies observability pricing and adds a web search API, and NVIDIA brings a cheaper 64GB DGX Spark.Friday, 2 October 2026
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 closes in on Opus at half the priceAnthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5.5 at $2/$10 with near-Opus scores and five breaking API changes, Cloudflare launches the cf CLI to replace Wrangler for agents, NVIDIA releases an open runtime for containing agents as Florida asks a court to rein in OpenAI, and AMD buys Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B.Monday, 28 September 2026
