Wednesday, 23 September 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Wednesday, 23 September 2026.
Research & Products
Nutanix Acquires Ryax, Plans AI Workload Scheduling in Future Releases
The deal gives Nutanix a route to coordinate AI work across several infrastructure types, but the customer-facing integrations remain under development.
Read moreClaude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
Yesterday was Grok 4.7 ( pelicans ) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro ( more pelicans ). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 , and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna . It's going to take a while to get a good read on all of these new models, but here are my impressions so far. GPT-6 Sol and Luna are half the price of their GPT-5.6 equivalents GPT-5.6 Luna was already my favorite model for building applications against, because it combined excellent performance with being really cheap . Somehow GPT-6 Luna is half the price of that again - and GPT-6 Sol had a similar...
Read morellm 0.36
Release: llm 0.36 New OpenAI models: gpt-6-sol for GPT-6 Sol and gpt-6-luna for GPT-6 Luna . #1702 Model plugins can now declare supports_conversation = False for models that only accept single-turn prompts. LLM raises llm.ConversationNotSupported when these models receive assistant or tool history, and llm chat rejects them before starting a session. See Models that do not support conversations . The first plugin to use this is llm-typesafe . #1692 Reasoning traces in the Markdown output of llm logs are now wrapped in tags. #1701 Plus bug fixes from five new contributors . Tags: openai , llm
Read moreAnthropic Releases Claude Opus 5.5, Cutting Prices From Opus 5
The new flagship model is Anthropic’s bet that agentic work will be won as much by lower serving costs and faster output as by benchmark gains.
Read moreRabbit Launches OS3, Moving Its AI Agent Beyond the R1
The new system can reach local computers from a browser or messaging app, but its promise of hands-off software work depends on users trusting an agent with meaningful access.
Read moreRabbit Repositions R1 as OS3 Turns Phones and PCs Into AI Agents
Rabbit launches an AI agent app called OS3, shifting from the R1 gadget to cross-platform software that runs on your existing devices. The post Rabbit Repositions R1 as OS3 Turns Phones and PCs Into AI Agents appeared first on Superintelligence News - Artificial Intelligence News .
Read moreOpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes
OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.
Read moreAnthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance
Anthropic called it "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date."
Read moreYouTube releases new AI features for creators within its Studio app
YouTube is adding new features to generate ideas and monitor the performance of thumbnails.
Read moreQualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI
Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.
Read moreGoogle Releases Gemini Speech Models With Custom Voices and Line-by-Line Direction
Flash TTS can copy a permitted voice from a 30-second sample, but Google requires a matching consent recording. Enterprise API access is still to come.
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Five AI safety sessions every founder should have on their TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 agenda
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, five sessions across the AI Stage and Real World AI Stage cover AI safety, featuring leaders from Anthropic, Nvidia, AWS, Waabi, and more. Register before September 25 to save up to $200.
Read morePolicy & Ethics
New UK agency to fight ‘information warfare’ from likes of Russia, Burnham tells UN
PM aims to ‘stem poisonous tide’ of disinformation and deepfakes with National Centre for Information Defence Security chiefs will set up a new national centre to tackle disinformation and deepfakes from hostile states such as Russia, Andy Burnham has announced, saying the government had a duty to “stem the poisonous tide” from damaging British interests. The National Centre for Information Defence will “detect, attribute and disrupt” information attacks by foreign powers, many of which are enabled by AI , bringing together the intelligence agencies, law enforcement and social media...
Read moreTrump praises Burnham despite tensions over AI, Chagos Islands and Iran
US president calls UK prime minister ‘a natural businessperson’ as leaders meet at UN assembly in New York Donald Trump has asserted his relationship with the UK is “more up” with Andy Burnham than under Keir Starmer despite tensions between the two countries on a range of thorny issues including regulation of artificial intelligence, the Chagos Islands and the war in Iran. At their first face-to-face meeting, the US president praised Burnham, who sat nervously alongside him, as a “natural businessperson”, saying he thought he had “lots of assets on his side” and would be a “great” prime...
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