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Meta says its new Muse Wonder models deliver state-of-the-art performance on agentic tasks. Artificial Analysis's index scores put both above Muse Spark 1.3, and Muse Wonder costs more per task than its predecessor.
13 Oct 2026Google says Gemini 4 Argon is rolling out first to vetted cyber defenders. Bloomberg, citing anonymous sources, reports internal doubts about its coding. Google disputes that framing.
13 Oct 2026Anthropic's updated usage policy, effective 12 November, adds a prohibition on sustained and needless cruelty toward its models, enforced mainly by Claude ending conversations.
12 Oct 2026Anthropic says Claude Haiku 5.5 is its first Haiku-class model with an adjustable effort setting. Thinking is now adaptive and on by default, and the old token-budget setting returns an error.
11 Oct 2026Reflection AI has announced Beam, a text-only open-weight model. The company says it scores comparably to GLM-5.2 on reasoning at lower inference compute. Its own tables show GLM-5.2 ahead on four reasoning tests.
10 Oct 2026Nikkei Asia reports that Apple has told some suppliers to cut component production for the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max after memory-driven price rises dampened demand. Reuters could not immediately verify it.
9 Oct 2026The Wikimedia Foundation says it found sandbox edits, probing of a note-taking tool and heavy traffic that it believes came from OpenAI-operated agents. It found no evidence of compromise. OpenAI did not immediately respond to Reuters' request for comment.
9 Oct 2026OpenAI is bringing GPT-6 to ChatGPT on free and paid plans, with a feature called Intelligent UI that answers with buttons, forms and charts. Here is who gets which model, and what the system card says.
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