Anthropic Releases Claude Sonnet 5.5: Same Price, 30% Faster Workhorse
September 29, 2026 · Model Release Anthropic on Monday released Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in its Claude 5.5 family and a mid-tier workhorse…
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Lab Leaders Warn That Automating AI R&D Could Trigger an Intelligence Explosion
September 29, 2026 · Research & Policy A group of senior AI researchers and lab leaders published a warning that automating AI research and development…
Open-Weight Models Hit 56% of Vercel Tokens as Earnings-Call Mentions Jump Sixfold
September 28, 2026 · Industry Open-weight models processed 56 percent of tokens on Vercel’s AI Gateway in August, up from 7 percent in December, according…
NYC Council Unveils AI Bills With Kill Switches and Whistleblower Bounties
New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin introduced a package of AI bills on Friday that would require third-party validation of systems sold in the…
Anthropic and OpenEvidence Partner to Expand Medical AI Worldwide
Anthropic and medical-question platform OpenEvidence have announced a partnership to take clinical AI tools to a wider global audience. OpenEvidence answers doctors’ questions by drawing…
Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5.5 at About 40% Lower Cost
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, saying the model matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks while costing about 40% less to run…
Gates Foundation Forms Global Coalition to Close AI’s Language Gap
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is leading a new coalition to make AI more usable for speakers of underrepresented languages. Anthropic, Microsoft, and Google…
Zero-Click Flaw Hit Plugins in Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, and Gemini CLI
Researchers at AIR disclosed Plugin4Shell on September 18: a zero-click remote-code-execution pattern that let attackers swap malicious plugin code past SHA-pinning checks in Claude Code,…
Anthropic Says Claude Now Leads 26% of Its Own R&D
Anthropic published an R&D Automation Index showing that Claude now “leads” 26 percent of the work used to build its successor models, up from under…
Trump Rejects Tech Bosses’ Call for an AI Slowdown
14 September 2026 · Politics & Regulation President Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed calls from leading AI executives to slow frontier development, describing some of…