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AI news in one feed, newest first: headlines from AI companies in our own words, each linked to its original source, plus selected Codex and Claude posts from Thibault Sottiaux (@thsottiaux), @claudeai and @ClaudeDevs.
A guide shows how to build scheduled automations with Claude Managed Agents.
How to build automations with Claude Managed Agents: https://t.co/uvNMfZ4vwB Deploy an agent that reads Slack/GitHub on a schedule (with credentials and memory) and posts updates.…
Excerpt from XSonnet 5.5 cache reads now cost half as much on the Claude Platform (API only).
ICYMI we've cut the price of Sonnet 5.5 cache reads in half. In the Claude Platform, it's now $0.10 per million tokens (input is $2,…
Excerpt from XClaude Dashboards and Claude Motion are in beta.
Claude Dashboards and Claude Motion are in beta today. Ask Claude to turn your data into live dashboards and your ideas into animated explainers. pic.twitter.com/V3fU4lMnzp
Max and Team plans now include monthly Claude Platform API credits.
Monthly API credits are now available on Max and Team plans: $100 on Max 5x, $200 on Max 20x, and up to $500 pooled on…
Excerpt from XGoogle Cloud introduces the Gemini agent for work
Announced at Gemini at Work 2026, the agent takes tasks from one prompt box, uses a company's business systems and returns results in the documents and tools people already use.
Source: Google blog
Anthropic launches its Cyber Mission for defenders
The program starts with a Critical Infrastructure Defense Program run with security firms and a free, opt-in OSS Scanner that sends vulnerability reports to enrolled open-source projects.
Source: Anthropic
Anthropic commits $150M to the US Genesis Mission
Over three years, Anthropic will make Claude available to more than 15 federal agencies in the science initiative and give Claude, Claude Code and API credits to several hundred research projects.
Source: Anthropic
Arena launches an Alignment Index built from real agent sessions
The new leaderboard from Arena (formerly LMArena) rates agent reliability on failure signals such as unauthorized actions, false attribution and deceptive completion.
Source: Arena
Tibo confirms the banked reset landed across all accounts.
Confirmed landed across all accounts. How are we doing so far? https://t.co/tzw7dNX4pN
Day 3: GPT-6 in Chat, 40M active users, and a banked reset for every paid account.
Day 3/ The big one is GPT-6 in Chat, but today is also a little celebration day with a new high of 40M active users…
Excerpt from XGPT-6 and Intelligent UI roll out to all ChatGPT users
OpenAI brought a GPT-6 model to ChatGPT for paid users first and Free and Go users next, along with Intelligent UI, which can answer with interactive interfaces instead of plain text.
Source: OpenAI
Claude Haiku 5.5 launches, costing around 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5.
Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5: the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model we’ve ever released. On average, it costs around 75% less to run than…
Excerpt from XAnthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5
The third Claude 5.5 model is built for high-volume, cost-sensitive work. Anthropic says it costs about 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5, and it halved Sonnet 5.5 cache-read prices on the same day.
Source: Anthropic
Microsoft Execution Containers for AI agents reach general availability
MXC enforces a declared policy of allowed files and network destinations on agents at runtime. Microsoft lists GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex among tools that already support it, with Claude Code announced as coming.
Source: Windows Developer Blog
Microsoft pushes local AI on Windows and launches Surface Laptop Ultra
At its Windows event Microsoft described Copilot using local files and local models alongside the cloud, and opened pre-orders for the Nvidia RTX Spark-based Surface Laptop Ultra, from $2,599, available 16 October.
Source: Windows Experience Blog
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