Wednesday, 23 September 2026

GPT-6 Sol and Luna

Claude Opus 5.5

OpenAI is well positioned to fast-follow Jev

Claude Opus 5.5 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis (Max)

Claude 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 hou…

Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school

llm 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_c…

llm-anthropic 0.29

Release: llm-anthropic 0.29 Adds support for Claude Opus 5.5 : llm -m claude-opus-5.5 "prompt goes here" Tags: llm , anthropic

AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You

Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments

OpenAI outlines priorities and principles for rigorous, secure, and independent third-party AI safety assessments of frontier models and sa…

Can gzip be a language model?

Better prompt caching for GPT-6

Learn how GPT-6 improves prompt caching with higher cache hit rates, new diagnostics, explicit breakpoints, and controls that reduce latenc…

Jun Kim, oMLX creator and maintainer, joins Hugging Face to support the MLX community

Quoting @therealcornpop

Hey, you know it's like super obvious if you're using AI to write your scripts for TikTok and YouTube, right? [...] It's not just the gener…

How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible

Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra

GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models.

LLM Ass Bench

llm-typesafe 0.1a0

Release: llm-typesafe 0.1a0 I built this new plugin for LLM to add support for TypeSafe AI's new Jev model . Install it like this: llm inst…

Unreal Agent

Transformers now runs llama.cpp quants

Haters think AI agents can't write GPU code? This'll ROCm

Ryan chats with Anush Elangovan, VP of Software at AMD, about ROCm's open-source unified toolchain for GPUs, how agentic AI is drastically…

On October 19, your unauthenticated GitLab automation gets 60 requests an hour

GitLab.com cuts anonymous callers to 60 requests an hour on October 19. What to fix before the October 7 and 14 brownouts, and why quota is…

How will AI change operating systems? Part 2: Windows

Deepdive into the Windows team’s efforts to make the OS “AI agent-friendly” and win back developers by going all-in on Linux on Windows, lo…

When users don’t click thumbs up: Inferring agent feedback from Datadog telemetry

Learn how we used weak labeling to infer user satisfaction from Datadog telemetry when agent users don’t click thumbs up.

Cut AI agent cost and improve accuracy with Code Execution in the Datadog MCP Server

Use the Code Execution toolset in the Datadog MCP Server to help AI agents run multisignal investigations with fewer tool calls and less mo…

How GitLab reduced code-per-agentic-flow ratio by 45%

GitLab Duo Agent Platform orchestrates and automates complex tasks through agentic flows. A key part of the platform is the Flow Registry,…

How to design GitLab for enterprise scale

At enterprise scale, even small architecture choices can have outsized consequences. A deployment that works for a handful of teams can bec…

We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary

Vary support is now available in Cache Rules on every plan. You can normalize known negotiation headers, pass exact values through to the o…

Introducing Worker Previews: Isolated preview environments for every change your agent makes

Worker Previews gives every branch its own URL, configuration, state, and observability, so you and your agents can test changes in paralle…

Grafana Alerting: Scale alert routing without scaling complexity using multiple notification policies

Alert routing often starts simple. A team creates a few contact points, adds some label matchers, and builds a notification policy tree tha…

How do you authorize a voice AI agent when there's no screen?

There is no consent dialog in a voice conversation. Voice agents run tools while they keep talking, and every consent pattern we rely on as…

GPT-6 Sol and Luna now available on AI Gateway

Claude Opus 5.5 now available on AI Gateway

Node.js 26.10.0 (Current)

What is stalemate in chess?

And what does it mean for your next chess match?

Code Quality Q&A With the JetBrains Qodana Team

Code quality is shaped by countless decisions, from how developers manage complexity to how quickly they detect regressions. But common con…

Sol Foundry Raises $4 Mn To Automate Email Commitments With AI

So far, AI in the inbox has so far meant assistance in drafting. Microsoft has pushed Copilot deeper into Outlook,…

Exclusive: Mistral acquires adtech startup Pimento in €12.7m cash-and-shares deal, filings show

Zetwerk, Ayr Energy Settle Legal Dispute

IPO-bound Zetwerk and US-based transformer startup Ayr Energy have reached a settlement by agreeing to dismiss all claims in lawsuits…

Proactive AI startup Sol raises $4 Mn from General Catalyst, Nexus VP, and others

Proactive AI startup Sol has emerged from stealth with $4 million in a funding round led by General Catalyst and Nexus Venture Partners, wi…

Now, Google Agrees To Report Child Abuse Content To Indian Authorities

After Meta, Google has proposed sharing information related to child sexual abuse material (CSAM) with Indian authorities, as the governmen…

TechCrunch Founder Summit’s agenda revealed: Unlock fundraising, hiring, and AI insights in Boston on November 4

Founders shouldn't have to learn the hardest lessons the hardest way. TechCrunch Founder Summit is designed to make the challenges of start…

Captain Fresh’s Revenue Jumps 52% To ₹5,169 Cr In FY26

IPO-bound B2B seafood brand Captain Fresh crossed the ₹5,000 Cr revenue mark in FY26, while its adjusted EBITDA nearly tripled…

Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol: which model won my blind taste test?

Watch now (39 mins) | 🎙️ I ran blind evaluations across writing, frontend prototypes, long-running agentic tasks, SVGs, coding, and video…

A16z wants to back more European startups — but won’t reopen European office anytime soon

Exhibit tables added: One last chance to showcase your startup at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

We have reopened our exhibitor program for 1 more week. Book your exhibit table by September 30 at 11:59 p.m. PT and showcase your startup…

4 days to save up to $200: Reason 2 of 5 to be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, plus 50% off a second pass before prices increase on September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. R…

Introducing Newcomer’s VC Sentiment Report: Unfiltered Insights from Silicon Valley’s Top Venture Capitalists

A quarterly study of how leading venture capitalists are thinking about the state of the market, key companies & sectors, and the trends dr…

I left Claude for months. Opus 5.5 is why I'm back

Watch now (25 mins) | 🎙️ I abandoned Claude for months because it drove me insane. Opus 5.5 changed that, and I'll show you exactly where…

Exclusive: Can You Trust That AI Agent? Baselayer Raises $35M To Help Companies Decide

Baselayer, an AI-powered startup that helps financial institutions verify businesses and assess fraud risk, has raised a $35 million M13-le…

Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms

The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.

Advanced evals: How to find (and fix) hidden AI failures in your product

Why you should never skip error discovery

Morphotonics raises €40M to expand its display tech into data centers

Deep tech company Morphotonics raises €40M from investors including 3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, BOM, and Invest-NL.

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Aaron Edsinger brings Hello Robot’s Stretch 4 to life onstage

Hello Robot CEO and co-founder Aaron Edsinger will bring Stretch 4 for a live demo on the Real World AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. R…

Singapore’s Nexstrom wants to bring 2D semiconductors to chip fabs

Singapore-based Nexstrom has raised new funding to develop equipment that could help chipmakers manufacture 2D semiconductor materials at s…

Cloud startup Verda raises $189m in funding round led by Emergence Capital

Mastercard Exits Pine Labs Via ₹934 Cr Bulk Deal

Pine Labs’ early backer Mastercard has exited the company by selling its entire 4.31% stake through a bulk deal on…

Being a System of Record Helps With Retention. But Alone, It Won’t Equal Growth

The other day ServiceTitan shut off Podium’s integration for roughly 1,000 shared customers after a nine-year partnership. The coverage mos…

Manufacturing Startups To Watch: 5 Startups That Caught Our Eye In September

India’s manufacturing story is entering a new era. After years of policy support and incentives, capital is now flowing into…

Exclusive: NIF backs defence startup Terasi in €11m raise

IPO-Bound PhonePe Secures In-Principle Nod For UAE Payments Business

Walmart-backed PhonePe has received in-principle approval from the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) for two payment licences, taking the…

PhonePe enters UAE, secures IPA from Central Bank

PhonePe, a digital payments platform, has secured In-Principle Approval (IPA) from the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE) for two licenses: Re…

Turtlemint Soars 9% Intraday Amid Positive Brokerage Reports

Shares of insurtech company Turtlemint soared 9% to touch an intraday high of ₹142.90 apiece on the BSE today. The…

ED Chargesheets EaseMyTrip Cofounder Nishant Pitti In Mahadev Betting Case

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has chargesheeted EaseMyTrip cofounder and chairman Nishant Pitti in the Mahadev online betting app money…

Lavni Ventures floats early stage deep-tech impact Funds II

The early-stage VC firm Lavni Ventures has announced Fund II, the second of its early stage deep-tech impact funds, has closed its Rs 200 c…

Auxilo reports Rs 676 Cr revenue and Rs 117 Cr profit in FY26

After crossing Rs 500 crore in revenue in FY25, education-focused NBFC Auxilo continued its growth momentum with 28% year-on-year growth in…

Furlenco Eyes ₹1,200 Cr IPO At ₹7,000 Cr Valuation: Report

Days after rival RentoMojo’s strong stock market debut, furniture and appliance rental startup Furlenco is reportedly gearing up for a…

Spinny Confidentially Files IPO Papers, Eyes Up To ₹3,000 Cr Issue

Used-car marketplace Spinny has pre-filed IPO papers with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), sources told Inc42. The…

Exclusive: CarDekho parent to convert into public company ahead of IPO

CarDekho Group, which operates platforms such as CarDekho, InsuranceDekho, BikeDekho, PriceDekho and Rupyy.com, is moving towards an IPO by…

Meesho Surges 9% After UBS Raises Target Price To ₹260

Update | September 22, 16:00 IST Shares of Meesho ended today’s trading session 9.66% higher at ₹240.20 on the BSE.…

I said no and Apple said yes

I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB

Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived

Visual FoxPro stopped at version 9 in 2007. A surprising amount of it is still running, in 32 bits, because rewriting a 20-year-old busines…

AMD's random number generator can't generate a 0?

'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

Trump’s sneaky plan to gut Endangered Species Act draws from 1995 Scalia dissent

Trump adopts Scalia’s ire for feds protecting populations of endangered animals.

16-bit Intel 8088 chip (c. 1985)

Show HN: Drop – A rootless Linux sandbox with gVisor support

I created Drop because I always felt uneasy installing and running third-party programs using my main user account. A single compromised de…

MiMo-v2.6-Pro: Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027

OpenAI wants to consult elite mathematicians about how to not fumble again

After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis, OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it…

Paramount will need to release way more movies to make this merger work

Now that Paramount has reached a settlement with the 12 states that were suing to block its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery…

New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money

The frontier AI model race has entered its comparison shopping phase.

Apple clarifies that Texture and Grain controls are exclusive to the latest iPhones’ cameras

Apple's new texture and grain controls for stylizing photos will be more limited on older phones than initially expected. A confusingly wor…

Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts

EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.

Score free Pixel Buds 2A when you preorder a Googlebook at Best Buy

The Android-powered Googlebooks are coming soon, with familiar brands and specs that rival Windows Copilot machines. For anyone eager to ge…

Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting

British Columbia sues OpenAI, demands Tumbler Ridge shooter’s ChatGPT logs.

Save $30 on Apple’s Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and a numpad

Until the end of the day on September 22nd, 2026, Best Buy and Amazon have the black Apple Magic Keyboard on sale for $169.99, a $30 discou…

San Francisco sues Trump Media for selling early access to Trump posts

San Francisco is suing the Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company behind Truth Social, for selling early access to President Do…

SAML: A fractal of bad design

WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE

9 Ads per Minute: FIFA Cup 26 – "the price of the beautiful game"

An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord

What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

Woman's brain worm infection confirmed after eggs grow tails in lab test

There is no single definitive test for these worms, but the tail is fairly convincing.

Rabbit’s new AI agent doesn’t need an R1 to run

Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don't need its hardware to use, as re…

Cities across US oppose Trump FCC plan to preempt local broadband rules

Cities defend permit requirements, say ISPs aren't building networks fast enough.

Saudi Arabia’s new Exobot EVs make the Cybertruck look normal

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is mostly known for its global dominance over petroleum production and oil reserves - not necessarily cars and…

Motorola’s wild-looking Signature 27 runs Qualcomm’s new Extreme chipset

Motorola is the first company to announce a phone running Qualcomm's top-end Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip. The Signature 27 looks…

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 comes in an Extreme version too

Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, this year joined by the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 too. The company describes both new phon…

Adobe Premiere finally brings powerful video editing to Android, and it's free

You don't even need a Creative Cloud login to edit clips, but AI features cost extra.

Review: Resident Evil might just be the best gaming adaptation yet

Director Zach Cregger's clever reboot strikes perfect balance between horror, humor, and over-the-top gore.

Toyota orders workers to train humanoid robots but says humans won't be replaced

Toyota's push comes as automakers race to develop and deploy humanoid robots.

IT mistake erases 11 years of viewing history for hospitals’ maternity records

The English hospitals recovered patient care data only.

Effort begins to fill the void left by terminated US climate report

First paper added to community collection is a roadmap for research.

Shuffling the deck chairs: Xbox continues its "reset" with dramatic restructuring

Activision gets Halo , Obsidian becomes part of Bethesda, and more internal shake-ups.

Protests for Germany’s car industry as job losses loom

A combination of Chinese competition and US tariffs is causing problems in Germany.

Dyson’s most overengineered gadget may have a waterproofing problem

Dyson admits a component issue but won't say what's failing in its $500 toothbrush.