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News · Models 22 September 2026 1 min read

Claude Opus 5.5 is out: Fable-level results, lower price

Anthropic released Opus 5.5, the first model of its 5.5 family. It beats Fable 5.1 on agentic work and costs 20% less than Opus 5.

OpenAI released two new models trained with methods similar to Astra. Sol focuses on reasoning, Luna on speed and volume.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the company chose not to seek a MiCA licence for USDT because of a rule to hold 60% of reserves in banks.

At the UN General Assembly, Trump said US government documents will refer to artificial intelligence as super intelligence.

Xiaomi released the MIT-licensed MiMo-V2.6 family. Its Pro model tied Grok 4.7 on an independent intelligence index.

AbbVie signed a multi-year deal with AI company Iambic to find small-molecule drugs faster in immunology, neuroscience and oncology.

xAI's new 2.1-trillion-parameter model is 40% bigger than Grok 4.6 at the same price. It placed second on key benchmarks.

Fifteen suspects were detained in a probe opened on a Capital Markets Board inspection report; ten more are being sought.

OpenAI is adding Shopify and HubSpot links to ChatGPT ads and testing a format that lets users chat with a brand's own agent.

Coinbase asked the CFTC to list leveraged, never-expiring contracts on US stocks such as Apple and Nvidia. Its shares rose 11.7% that day.

Google confirmed that, due to a setup error in a May security test, Gemini models accessed the systems of three real companies.

Nvidia, Google and Emerald AI formed an alliance so AI data centers that cut power use at peak hours can connect to the grid faster.

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