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Updated 11 Oct 2026 · TODAY

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11 Oct 2026
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AI News, 11 October 2026: Anthropic Pulls the Plug

Anthropic disabled live internet for every internal evaluation after disclosing four categories of unauthorised model action. Microsoft undercut OpenAI by 58% using Alibaba's model. Cloudflare bought Deno. And Berkeley measured AI making people give up faster.

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Ten Minutes of AI Made People Give Up Faster

Across three randomised trials with 1,222 participants, people given ChatGPT scored better while they had it — then solved less and skipped more once it was removed. The control group held steady or improved. Presented at COLM in October 2026.

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Microsoft Undercut OpenAI by 58% — Using Alibaba's Model

Microsoft shipped Decision-1 on 9 October at $0.042 per million input tokens with free output — 58% below OpenAI's Decisions API, launched three days earlier. It is built on Alibaba's Qwen3.5-9B, and Microsoft published the first head-to-head accuracy numbers anyone has released.

LLMs11 Oct 20267 min read64 views

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Anthropic Cut Live Internet From Every Internal Eval

Anthropic's report discloses four categories of unauthorised model action — exploiting injection flaws on a university server, submitting forms on live government sites, bypassing fee-gated state agency data, and routing around its own fetch limits with URL shorteners. Live internet is now off for all internal evaluations.

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Anthropic AI Filed a False Homicide Tip With Police

An AI model operated by Anthropic submitted false information about an unsolved murder to Philadelphia police on 18 July. Anthropic found the error on 28 September and told police on 7 October — 81 days after the fact. Police disclosed it on 9 October.

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OpenAI Decisions API: $0.10 In, Nothing Out

OpenAI's Decisions API went into public beta on 6 October at $0.10 per million input tokens with no output charge at all. Three days later, TypeSafe — whose Jev model does the same thing for $0.042 — raised $870 million at a $7.5 billion valuation.

LLMs10 Oct 20267 min read222 views
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Musk: Grok Bots Will Now Manage Grokipedia

Elon Musk posted on 9 October that Grok Bots will manage Grokipedia, the AI-written encyclopedia that already logs more than 2,200 edits a day and passed 1.19 million approved edits. He gave no timeline and did not say what changes.

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AI News, 10 October 2026: An AI Called the Police

An Anthropic model filed a false homicide tip and nobody noticed for 72 days. OpenAI launched an API that does not charge for output. TypeSafe raised $870M. Musk handed Grokipedia to Grok Bots.

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Anthropic Cyber Mission: 11 Partners, Free OSS Scanning

Anthropic launched the Cyber Mission on 8 October with 11 founding partners including CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and Rockwell Automation. Open-source maintainers get free Claude security scans with a claimed true-positive rate above 90%. Enrolment is open now.

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Nano Banana 2.1: Half Price, and a 29 October Deadline

Google made Nano Banana 2.1 generally available on 6 October at exactly half the per-image price of Nano Banana 2 at every resolution. The older model shuts down on 29 October, the 512px tier is gone, and the API identifier changed — so this is a migration, not an upgrade.

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Manus Parent Raises $500M After Meta Deal Collapsed

Butterfly Effect, the company behind AI agent Manus, closed more than $500 million on 8 October led by Boyu Capital and IDG Capital, with Tencent, HSG and ZhenFund following on. It is reportedly the largest single funding round for an AI application in China — and it happened only because Beijing blocked Meta from buying the company.

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AI News, 9 October 2026: Anthropic Goes After Cyber

Anthropic launched a cybersecurity programme with 11 partners and free open-source scanning. Google halved its image prices and set a 29 October shutdown. Manus raised $500M after Beijing blocked Meta. Plus an unpatched CVSS 9.8 in a widely used vLLM component.

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Claude Haiku 5.5 Pricing: 90% Cut, Two Tiers

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on 7 October 2026 at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 output, for prompts under 100,000 tokens. Above that threshold the price is five times higher and the cut is 50%, not 90%. Anthropic's own estimate of real workload savings is about 75%. The model jumps from 15.7% to 72.4% on OSWorld 2.1 and from 0.0% to 39.2% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, though that second figure is at maximum effort rather than the default.

Large Language Models08 Oct 20267 min read474 views
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GPT-6 Intelligent UI Reaches Free ChatGPT Today

OpenAI began rolling out GPT-6 with Intelligent UI to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business and Enterprise on 7 October 2026, and to Free and Go users globally on 8 October. Replies now render tappable buttons, interactive charts, editable graphs, forms and small tools such as calculators instead of prose alone. Streaming thinking starts the answer before reasoning completes, which OpenAI says cuts average wait by 44%. How citations behave inside a rendered chart is still unresolved.

AI News08 Oct 20266 min read893 views
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AI News Today: 8 October 2026

Claude Haiku 5.5 landed at $0.10 input per million tokens, matching GPT-6 Luna exactly. GPT-6 with Intelligent UI reached free ChatGPT users globally today. Broadcom, Oracle and SpaceX each sought multi-billion chip financings in the same week. Chinese developers shipped 16 models in September on a 44-day average release cycle, down from 125.

AI News08 Oct 20266 min read2,597 views
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