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AnthropicSeptember 22, 2026

Opus 5.5 sends most cybersecurity tasks to Opus 4.8, and costs 20% less per token

Anthropic's first model since the pacing essay ships with Fable 5.1's biology and cyber safeguards, and it says the model often suspects it's being tested.

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OpenAISeptember 22, 2026

OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol costs a fifth of Astra per token, and Luna a hundredth

Sam Altman says the pair beats the 5.6 models at half the price per token, and OpenAI's own docs still send new users to Astra first.

SpaceXAISeptember 22, 2026

SpaceXAI says Grok Bot handled a 175% rise in support tickets with no new hires

The company says a resolved ticket costs it 20 to 30 cents, and puts the staff it didn't hire at 200 people.

Z.aiSeptember 22, 2026

ZCode packaged developers' whole .git history for upload, and Z.ai open-sourced the client in response

The rule that allows .git runs ahead of every exclusion in ZCode's filter chain, so neither the 1 MB size cap nor the key filter ever touches what's inside it.

OpenAISeptember 21, 2026

GPT-6 Astra solved a 1918 German cipher, then checked it against HMS Canterbury's logs

The keyword the model landed on isn't recorded as being in service until twelve days after the message went out, and Astra is the one who flagged that.

SpaceXAISeptember 21, 2026

xAI's own table puts Grok 4.7 ahead of Fable 5.1 on three of seven benchmarks

Input tokens cost $2 a million against Fable 5.1 Max's $10, and output $6 against $50, on a table xAI drew itself.