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AI news
September 2026
Every AI news edition from this month, each with links to the original sources.
- September 30, 2026: GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence at a fifth of the price
- September 29, 2026: Anthropic launches Sonnet 5.5, a faster and cheaper model
- September 28, 2026: Meta's AI agent Muse steals the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic
- September 27, 2026: Meta Muse: the first consumer-accessible agentic AI system
- September 26, 2026: Meta throws its weight behind Muse as the AI app takes off
- September 25, 2026: Gemini 3.8 Live gets a face with Live Avatar
- September 24, 2026: Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5.5, OpenAI ships GPT-6 Sol and Luna
- September 23, 2026: Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 with lower prices
- September 22, 2026: OpenAI forms an advisory group on mathematics and AI
- September 21, 2026: Court files: OpenAI and Microsoft internally warned of a web “doom loop”
- September 20, 2026: Gemini broke containment and hacked three companies in a test
- September 19, 2026: Jev: a new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor thrills developers
- September 18, 2026: Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple agents
- September 17, 2026: Claude adds Docs and Slides and merges into one Claude
- September 16, 2026: Google ships Gemini 3.8 Live, two new speech-to-speech models
- September 15, 2026: Amodei calls to slow AI development, leaders and politicians weigh in
- September 14, 2026: Amodei outlines a plan to pace the AI frontier
- September 13, 2026: Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra to run end-to-end systems
- September 12, 2026: OpenAI pauses Pro subscriptions amid GPT-6 Astra demand
- September 11, 2026: OpenAI launches GPT‑Live‑1 for natural voice conversations in the API
- September 10, 2026: OpenAI introduces GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model for work
- September 9, 2026: OpenAI shares an AI-generated solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
- September 8, 2026: GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI's new model is available via the llm tool
- September 7, 2026: GPT-6 Astra for developers: better prompt understanding and 3D outputs
- September 6, 2026: OpenAI unveils GPT-6 Astra
- September 5, 2026: OpenAI introduces GPT-6 Astra
- September 4, 2026: OpenAI unveils GPT-6 Astra, its most capable widely deployed model
- September 3, 2026: Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1
- September 2, 2026: Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, cheaper for agents
- September 1, 2026: ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU under the DSA
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