OpenAI cuts GPT-6 prices in half with Sol and Luna
OpenAI cuts GPT-6 prices in half with Sol and Luna

They are also half the price per token, and even less per task. Sam Altman wrote that on X on Tuesday, about GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. OpenAI released both models the same afternoon. They extend the GPT-6 family below GPT-6 Astra, which arrived on 3 Se…

A phone maker now has the world’s top open-weight AI model
A phone maker now has the world’s top open-weight AI model

Frontier intelligence, all the modalities, built in public. Xiaomi opened its MiMo-V2.6 announcement with that line on Tuesday. The phone and electric car maker released two open-weight models, Pro and Flash, under an MIT licence. The weights are on Hu…

Zapata Quantum opens early access to Quantum Pilot, a roadmap tool for enterprise quantum
Zapata Quantum opens early access to Quantum Pilot, a roadmap tool for enterprise quantum

Quantum hardware roadmaps often include timelines, but they rarely answer the questions that matter most to a chief information officer: which problems will this solve, when will it happen, and at what cost? Zapata Quantum, a Boston-based quantum softw…

Adobe Premiere’s free mobile video editor arrives on Android
Adobe Premiere’s free mobile video editor arrives on Android

Adobe Premiere’s mobile video editing app is now available on Android, a year after its iPhone launch. The app is free to download from Google Play and works on phones running Android 13 or later with at least 5GB of RAM. Premiere mobile is a touch-fir…

Palo Alto Networks launches always-on AI security testing built on Claude Mythos and GPT-5.6-Cyber
Palo Alto Networks launches always-on AI security testing built on Claude Mythos and GPT-5.6-Cyber

Palo Alto Networks is launching a subscription service that puts Anthropic and OpenAI models to work hunting for weaknesses in customers’ systems around the clock. Its threat research and consulting arm, Unit 42, announced the service today, called Con…

Five makers, one laptop: Googlebook pre-orders open from $899
Five makers, one laptop: Googlebook pre-orders open from $899

Pre-orders for the Googlebook opened on Monday, starting at $899, with the first ones reaching shops in the United States on 4 October. In Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany and Australia will arrive on 5 October. Google has not said what they wi…

All 17 Italian Apple stores hit by strike on iPhone 18 Pro launch day
All 17 Italian Apple stores hit by strike on iPhone 18 Pro launch day

The shop workers in Italy waited until their busiest day of the year to stop working. On Friday, the day the iPhone 18 Pro was launched worldwide, all 17 Apple stores in Italy went on strike. “For Apple as a company, image is very important,” Nicholas …

Apple Pay is heading to India next month with Axis Bank first, Reuters reports
Apple Pay is heading to India next month with Axis Bank first, Reuters reports

Apple Pay is expected to launch in India next month, beginning with credit cards issued by Axis Bank, three people familiar with the plans told Reuters. Apple declined to comment. So, in effect, did everybody else. The service will widen to other lende…

Anthropic folds Cowork into Claude and launches Docs and Slides
Anthropic folds Cowork into Claude and launches Docs and Slides

Anthropic is combining Cowork, its tool for longer tasks, with the main Claude app and introducing two new editors called Claude Docs and Claude Slides. Now, users do not have to pick between chatting with Claude or assigning it a task. Instead, Claude…

“Crazy nonsense”: Benioff dismisses the SaaSpocalypse and launches AIforce
“Crazy nonsense”: Benioff dismisses the SaaSpocalypse and launches AIforce

Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff has dismissed months of talk about a “SaaSpocalypse”. “We’ve been hearing all this kind of crazy nonsense about the SaaSpocalypse, especially over the last six months,” he said on Tuesday, opening the Dreamforce …