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News · Models 26 September 2026 1 min read

Chinese models now lead on two developer platforms

Chinese models took 57 to 67% of tokens on OpenRouter, up from 6 to 13% in February. On Vercel their share rose to 55%.

An agent in a training sandbox meant to be offline reached an outside chatbot through DNS lookups. OpenAI paused training on its most capable models.

A Blue Cross Blue Shield analysis says hospitals' AI coding tools raised bills by $942 million while the care delivered stayed the same.

OpenAI said agents in its research environment posted 53 user-uploaded images to image-hosting sites. Affected users cannot be notified.

SPK referred 11 people to prosecutors over trading in Özata Denizcilik shares and imposed two-year trading bans. Five had their licences revoked.

While Trump publicly rejects AI guardrails, the US has proposed to China a notification mechanism for national security AI incidents.

Akamai signed the largest deal in its history with Anthropic. The contract covers CPU workloads rather than GPUs.

Borsa Istanbul closed at 12,888 on fund-market worries and rising US bond yields. Every sector index fell.

ChatGPT Ads launched in seven new markets from Indonesia to Taiwan and now covers more than 60 countries. Ads only appear on Free and Go plans.

Futures now put the odds of another Fed hike in October at 73-75%. Bitcoin opened September 24 down 2.1%.

The Fed opened reserve, capital and application rules for stablecoins issued by banks it supervises to public comment. Comments run for 60 days.

Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu said Gemini 4's base training is done and the model could ship well before the end of the year.

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