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Industry · ExplainerComing soon in AI: launches, deadlines and events to watch in November and December 2026The upcoming AI launches, deadlines and events for November and December 2026, each dated and sourced: model retirements, price rises, the EU AI Act's December 2 deadline, Microsoft Ignite, AWS re:Invent, NeurIPS, and the reported Anthropic IPO window.Oct 20·6 min read 2

Open source · NewsDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: what's new, parameters, price and VRAM requirementsDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 arrived on October 17, 2026 as a minor update to September's V4.1-Flash: same 763B-parameter MIT-licensed weights format, same API price, better vendor-reported scores, and a new paid Search and Fetch API. Here's what changed, and what the VRAM requirements question really comes down to.Oct 18·6 min read 3

Policy · NewsReligious exemption from AI: a University of Kentucky employee, a humanist, was excused from using AI at work. What's known, and what Title VII saysA religious exemption from AI at work: the American Humanist Association says the University of Kentucky agreed on September 25, 2026 that research administrator David Durman, a humanist, need not personally use AI. It was an internal accommodation, not a court ruling. What's known, and how Title VII and Groff v. DeJoy apply.Oct 29·6 min read 4

Developers · AnalysisStack Overflow questions per month: the 'fewer than 1,000' claim, what the data query counts, and what Stack Overflow says about AIA Hacker News post on October 28, 2026 said Stack Overflow now gets fewer than 1,000 questions a month, citing a Stack Exchange Data Explorer query. The official Stack Exchange API counts 969 in September 2026. Here's what that kind of count includes and leaves out, why the latest month can look lower than it is, what earlier reports said, and what Stack Overflow's own survey says about AI.Oct 29·9 min read 5

Products · CompareChatGPT vs Claude for coding and writing: plans, models and limits comparedBoth start at $20 and go to $200 or more. We compare the models each plan gets, Codex vs Claude Code, context, limits and what leaderboards show.Oct 9·Checked Oct 9 6

Developers · GuideHow to use Gemini 4 Argon: in the Gemini app, AI Studio, the Gemini API and AntigravityHow to use Gemini 4 Argon depends on where you want it: AI Pro or Ultra for the Gemini app, Ultra for AI Studio's Playground and Antigravity, and a billing-enabled key for the API. Plans, steps from Google's docs, sample code, costs, limits and fixes.Oct 14·8 min read 7

Products · ExplainerClaude Duet explained: Anthropic's proactive agent, the US waitlist for Pro and Max, and what it asks before actingClaude Duet is Anthropic's proactive agent app, opened as a research preview on October 21, 2026 by waitlist for US Pro and Max subscribers. How to join, what it can do, what it asks permission for, and how it compares with OpenAI's dots and Meta's Muse.Oct 24·7 min read 8

Models · ExplainerGPT-7 release date: what OpenAI has actually said, and what's reportedThere is no GPT-7 release date. As of October 20, 2026, OpenAI hasn't announced GPT-7 at all. Here's what it has shipped (GPT-6 Astra, Sol, Luna and GPT-6.1 Sol), how long its big launches have taken, and what The Information and others have reported about its next flagship.Oct 20·7 min read 9

Models · NewsGPT-6 reaches every ChatGPT user: what OpenAI shipped, what it costs, and where each model runsFour GPT-6 models in five weeks, split across ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs, Codex and the API. Here's the verified map, with prices.Oct 9·6 min read 10

Research · AnalysisEpoch AI's InnovationEval: AI agents fell far short of a human ML innovation and overstated their resultsEpoch AI's InnovationEval asked Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol to invent a post-training method on their own. After Epoch removed best-run cherry-picking and out-of-scope changes, they scored 2% and 15% of a human baseline, and both write-ups overstated what they had achieved.Oct 13·8 min read 11

Open source · NewsMeta Muse Spark Open: the 816B open-weight model, its Muse Model License and what it takes to runMeta released Muse Spark Open on October 15, 2026: an 816B-parameter (42B active) open-weight model with a 1M-token context, under a new Muse Model License. What the license actually allows, what hardware it needs, and how Meta's own benchmark table stacks up.Oct 16·6 min read 12

Research · AnalysisWhat the Gemini 4 Argon model card says: safety tests, cyber mitigations, Fairwind access and the limitsGoogle's Gemini 4 Argon model card says the company can't rule out that Argon reached its critical capability levels for biological and cyber risk, so it shipped with safeguards and a safety case. Here's what the card and Google's safety post report, how they compare with the Claude Opus 5.5 system card, and what's missing.Oct 14·9 min read 13

Products · CompareClaude vs ChatGPT vs Gemini (October 2026): plans, prices, models, limits and which to pickClaude vs ChatGPT vs Gemini, compared on every plan from free to $500 a month: which models each plan gets, context and file limits, usage rules, ads, data settings, coding tools, and what independent evaluators report, as of October 20, 2026.Oct 20·Checked Oct 20 14

Industry · AnalysisAI stocks and credit sell-off, October 2026: what happened with CoreWeave's bonds, the chip rout and inflationBetween October 13 and 15, 2026, CoreWeave bond yields rose to about 15%, a hot inflation report briefly pushed the 10-year Treasury yield above 5.3%, Barclays downgraded Dell and the chip sell-off spread to South Korea. What happened in the AI stocks and credit sell-off, day by day, and what the signals do and don't show.Oct 16·7 min read 15

Models · NewsBlock's Dessa: a full-duplex conversation model trained only on speech, with no text, released as a closed research previewBlock's Dessa is a speech-to-speech conversation model that Block says was trained from scratch on human conversation audio, with no text and no pretrained models. What that claim means, what Block has disclosed, and what it hasn't: size, license, benchmarks or a release date.Oct 26·4 min read 16

Developers · NewsCalif's iPhone hack: an iOS 27.0.1 jailbreak shown at Hexacon, what Apple has patched, and what role AI playedCalif's iPhone hack, shown at Hexacon in Paris on October 16, 2026, was a reboot-persistent jailbreak of an iPhone 18 Pro on iOS 27.0.1, plus Signal and iMessage demos. Calif hasn't published the bugs or said whether AI found them. What's confirmed, what Apple has patched, and what's only reported.Oct 26·5 min read 17

Policy · NewsAI homework grading at Berkeley: Fields medalist Richard Borcherds stops grading homework for correctness, seeing 'no point' because of AIAI homework grading at Berkeley: Fields medalist Richard Borcherds told the Daily Californian he now grades homework only on completion, seeing 'no point' in paying readers to check correctness once students use AI. What he said, what Berkeley's AI policy says, and what surveys show about student AI use.Oct 27·6 min read 18

Models · ExplainerMeta Muse Spark explained: the closed model behind Meta AI, the Muse agent app, and what's openMuse Spark, launched April 8, 2026, is Meta's proprietary replacement for Llama at the top of its lineup. It now powers Meta AI, the Muse personal agent (on iPad since October 7) and a paid API. What it is, what it costs, and how much of it is actually open.Oct 13·7 min read 19

Models · ExplainerGemini 4 Carbon vs Claude Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol: price, context, access and benchmarks (October 2026)Gemini 4 Carbon vs Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol, on official prices, context limits and access as of October 29, 2026, plus the shared benchmarks: Artificial Analysis scores them 59, 58 and 55. Carbon isn't on sale yet.Oct 29·9 min read 20

Models · ExplainerCheap, fast AI models compared (October 2026): DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs MiniMax M3.1 Flash vs Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Gemini Flash vs GPT-6 LunaCheap, fast AI models compared as of October 20, 2026: MiniMax M3.1 Flash, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, Claude Haiku 5.5, Gemini 3.8 Flash and GPT-6 Luna on official prices, context, output limits, open weights, and what Artificial Analysis and Vals AI report.Oct 20·9 min read