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“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones

Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.

Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes

Get ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop.

OpenAI releases progress on more than 300 math research problems, stunning humans

Mathematicians are trying to make sense of OpenAI’s Tuesday release of findings on more than 300 open problems made by an internal artificial intelligence model — a staggering quantity of mathematical progress that builds on AI developments that have stunned the research community.

Data center boom is pushing prices higher, according to Fed officials

Federal Reserve officials are increasingly pointing to the artificial intelligence buildout, rather than tariffs, to explain why the prices of goods keep rising, according to minutes of their September meeting released Wednesday.

GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna: October 2026 Update

We’re launching GPT-6 to everyone in ChatGPT, across free and paid plans globally. These models will replace GPT-5.6 Sol and GPT-5.6 Luna in ChatGPT. Users accessing GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna in Codex, and via ChatGPT Work, are still using previously released versions. In this system card, we distinguish these models by their month of release: October for the versions released today, and September for the versions that remain in use in Codex and Work. See our blog for details.

Nous Research confirms it hit $1.5B valuation, launches AI agents for business users

The developer of Hermes agent raised a $90 million Series B.

What Amazon's customer profiles got right

Amazon's "About You" shows customers what it infers from their shopping activity. We asked Business Insider staff to check theirs.

Microsoft releases new Nvidia-chip AI PCs with revamped Windows 11

Microsoft revealed the specs and price for its Surface Laptop Ultra, AI PCs that run on Nvidia chips that are designed to run AI models and agents.

David Robinson says a sense of 'cognitive dissonance' led him to leave OpenAI

David Robinson said OpenAI was racing ahead with development, despite repeated warnings about the capabilities of new models.

This week in the big AI data center buildout.

AI data center projects are continuing to pop up across the US, with frequent opposition from locals concerned about their impact. Here are a few recent articles about the projects:

AI & Tech Brief: Congress’s AI Use

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Anthropic says its new Claude Haiku 5.5 model is its fastest to date.

Haiku 5.5 is only outpaced by Anthropic’s Opus models in Fast Mode. Anthropic also says it costs “around 75% less” on average than last year’s Haiku 4.5, and it’s the first Haiku-class model with an adjustable effort level. Haiku 5.5 is available now “on all platforms.”