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Wednesday, September 23, 2026 · 10 stories
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since CEO Dario Amodei urged pacing frontier AI. It matches Fable 5.1 on most tasks while costing 40% less than Opus 5, at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output, and runs over 30% faster. It adds safeguards against sandbox escapes and is now default in Claude Code and the Claude app.
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OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna on Tuesday, halving API prices to $2 and $10 per million tokens for Sol and $0.10 and $0.50 for Luna. Both are live in ChatGPT Work and Codex for paid subscribers, with Luna also reaching free and Go users. Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 about 90 minutes earlier, intensifying a price war.
Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 at its Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii. Both use TSMC's 2nm process with Oryon CPU cores up to 5GHz. The Extreme adds 50% more NPU shared memory and 8K60 video. Motorola's Signature 27 will debut the Extreme chip, with Xiaomi, Vivo, Oppo and Honor adopting the chips.
Motorola unveiled the Signature 27 at Snapdragon Summit, the first phone with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip. It features a 200MP periscope telephoto, 50MP Sony Lytia 910 main sensor, Bang & Olufsen audio, and seven years of Android updates. A global launch including the US is due before the end of the year; price and release date remain unannounced.
In a UN General Assembly speech Tuesday, President Donald Trump said the US is renaming artificial intelligence to 'super intelligence,' arguing 'artificial' sounds fake. He said all US documents will use the term and urged other nations to follow, adding the US will encourage rather than rein in the technology. No formal order or agency action was announced.
Microsoft cut 268 roles across Xbox first-party studios on Tuesday, moving Halo to Activision and shifting Rare, World's Edge and Obsidian to Activision and Bethesda. The cuts are about 75 percent of a planned 3,200-worker reduction, following 1,600 layoffs in July. Ninja Theory faces closure after two sale agreements collapsed, with a consultation period underway.
OpenAI and Anthropic released cheaper AI models on Tuesday. OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna cut API prices 50% versus GPT-5.6, with Sol at $2 input and $10 output per million tokens. Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 costs 40% less to run than Opus 5, at $4 input and $20 output. Both face pressure from cheaper open-weight rivals.
British Columbia sued OpenAI and Sam Altman in San Francisco federal court on Monday, alleging the company failed to warn police that the Tumbler Ridge school shooter used ChatGPT to plan a February massacre. The province seeks damages for recovery efforts and an order forcing practice changes. OpenAI banned the shooter's first account in 2025 but missed a second.
Adobe released its free Premiere video editor for Android on Tuesday, nearly a year after the iOS version. It requires Android 13 and 5GB RAM, offers unlimited 4K exports without watermarks, and charges only for Firefly AI credits or cloud storage. The app replaces Premiere Rush, which loses support September 30, and competes with CapCut and Meta's Edits.
ShinyHunters says it exploited an unpatched Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day Monday night to breach FBI systems, stealing 2TB to 3TB of employee and applicant data and reaching AWS GovCloud. The FBI took systems offline and its jobs site was defaced. The group gave the FBI one week to amend a May 2026 FLASH report and says it is now targeting Fortune 500 firms.