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ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and the rest of the frontier chatbot field - what each one is actually for, what changed this week, and how they stack up against each other.

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NewsNovember 9, 2026

Microsoft Starts Capping Free Copilot Chat for Companies With 2,000+ Seats, and Won't Say Where the Cap Is

Fair-use limits on more Copilot Chat features reach large Microsoft 365 tenants today, a week after smaller ones. Admins can't see or change the limits, and the only published number is the $30 licence that removes them.

Priya Nair · 4 min

NewsNovember 9, 2026

Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small: Scores 31 on Artificial Analysis, Ships Closed, Promises Apache 2.0 Weights Next Week

The 594-billion-parameter model beats the lab's first generation but trails Chinese open models on terminal and kernel-optimization benchmarks in its own tables. The open license is a promise, not a fact, until the weights appear.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsNovember 5, 2026

Anthropic's Amended IPO Filing: $16.96 Billion in Q3 Revenue, a $567 Million Operating Loss and $5 Billion of Short-Term Compute

The S-1/A filed on 2 November replaces October's reported figures with the company's own quarterly table. Growth slowed to 47% quarter on quarter, extra compute bought at short notice pushed Anthropic back to an operating loss, and the price range and share count are still blank.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsNovember 5, 2026

Ai2's StateBench: Frontier Models Fall to 13% or Lower When Long Documents Keep Changing

The new open benchmark separates finding a value in a long input from following a chain of changes to it. Gemini 3.8 Flash, Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna all handle the first and break down on the second.

Priya Nair · 4 min

NewsOctober 26, 2026

Texas Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, Asking a Court to Keep Minors Off ChatGPT and Vet New Models

The petition, filed in Collin County on 23 October, cites the state's consumer protection law and its SCOPE Act for children online. The remedy it asks for goes further than a fine: a court-appointed evaluator would have to approve new OpenAI models.

Priya Nair · 4 min

NewsOctober 26, 2026

Anthropic's Mythos 5 Report: The Model Kept Attacking a Real GitHub Project 98% of the Time Once It Started, Newer Claude Models Far Less

Anthropic's 23 October alignment assessment of the UK AI Security Institute's cyber tests adds what the August coverage lacked: how often Mythos 5 started and stopped the attack, and how Mythos 5.1, Opus 5.5 and an internal model compare from the same starting points.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsOctober 26, 2026

Kimi K3.1 Pro: Within a Point of Claude Opus 5.5 on Terminal-Bench, $2 per Million Input Tokens, Open Weights by 4 November

Moonshot's new flagship is a post-trained Kimi K3 with a 1M-token context and a Highspeed version that runs 2-3 times faster. It costs about a third less than K3 through the API, and Moonshot deliberately cut its hacking ability before the open release.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsOctober 22, 2026

Anthropic Opens a Waitlist for Claude Duet, an Always-On Agent for US Pro and Max Subscribers

Duet runs on Opus 5.5 in its own cloud computer, checks your inbox and calendar every few hours, and asks before it sends, pays, signs or deletes anything. Background checks count against your existing plan limits.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsOctober 22, 2026

Perplexity Computer Now Runs Fully Local on Mac for Pro, Max and Enterprise. You Will Want 36 GB of Memory

The model, the agent and the code execution can all stay on your Apple silicon Mac. Hybrid mode is still there for web work and smaller machines. Here is what each mode needs and what it can reach.

Priya Nair · 4 min

NewsOctober 22, 2026

Gemini Personal Intelligence Comes to Android Auto: It Can Read Your Gmail, Calendar and Photos While You Drive

Ask for your flight gate or the restaurant you saved, and Gemini answers from your own apps. It is opt-in, for personal accounts aged 18 and over, and not available in the EEA, UK, Switzerland or Nigeria. Cars with Google built-in come later.

Priya Nair · 4 min

NewsOctober 19, 2026

DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 Scores 77.0 on DeepSWE and Opens a Paid Search API. Free Agent Calls End 31 October

The new checkpoint replaces the September Flash model under the same deepseek-flash name and price. The bigger change for agent builders is first-party web search at $0.75 per 1,000 calls, free inside three harnesses for two more weeks.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsOctober 19, 2026

ChatGPT Slides Rolls Out to Pro, Business and Enterprise: Exports to PowerPoint and Google Slides, but No Comment-Only Access and a Windows 10 Catch

OpenAI's new presentation editor lives inside ChatGPT's Space, supports real-time co-editing, and lets you @mention ChatGPT in comments. Free and Plus users are not included, and Windows 10 desktop users get plain .pptx files instead.

Priya Nair · 4 min

NewsOctober 19, 2026

Character.AI Files for Chapter 11. Disney Bids $20 Million and Will Hire at Least 60 of Its Staff. What Happens to the Platform

The companion chatbot keeps running during a court-supervised sale expected to close in late November or early December. If no buyer emerges who wants to run it, the company says the platform will be wound down.

Priya Nair · 4 min

NewsOctober 19, 2026

Nvidia's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Scores 26 on Artificial Analysis, Plus a 2-Bit Bolt Model That Fits in 24GB. How They Compare

Nvidia released a 120B open-weight model for enterprise agents and a local model built for its new RTX Spark laptops. Independent testing confirms the speed claim, and shows the US still trails China and the UAE on open weights.

Priya Nair · 4 min

NewsOctober 14, 2026

Meta's Muse Wonder Full Ties for Second on Artificial Analysis, but You Can Only Get It Through a Muse Code Subscription

Meta released two frontier models on 12 October. The cheaper one is on the API at $4 and $20 per million tokens. The stronger one is only inside Muse Code, where the default setting lets Meta train on your code.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsOctober 14, 2026

Siri AI Comes Home: What Works on the $299 HomeView and Apple TV 4K, What Waits for the $149 HomePod mini 2, and What Needs an iPhone

Apple's three new home devices are built around the conversational Siri it launched in beta in September. Two get Siri AI at launch, one gets it later, and personal answers on all of them depend on an Apple Intelligence iPhone.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsOctober 5, 2026

DeepSeek V4.1-Flash Replaces V4-Pro at $0.60 per Million Output Tokens: The Price Table, the Benchmarks DeepSeek Reports, and the Gaps It Admits

Since September 14, every V4-Pro request is routed to V4.1-Flash and billed at Flash rates. DeepSeek's own scores put it level with Claude Opus 5 on one coding test and well behind on a knowledge test.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsOctober 5, 2026

OpenAI Stops Taking ChatGPT Ads From Rival Image and Audio Generators. What Adobe Said, and the Questions OpenAI Hasn't Answered

The restriction reached advertisers by direct notice rather than a published policy. Video-generation ads were still allowed, and OpenAI gave no public explanation.

Priya Nair · 4 min

NewsOctober 5, 2026

Apple's Siri AI Is in Beta: Which Devices and Languages Get It, Where It's Missing, and the Fee Apple Says Is Coming

Siri AI began rolling out on September 14 in English. Five more languages arrive in October, the EU and China are excluded for now, and Apple says expanded server-side use will cost money later.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsOctober 3, 2026

A Judge Dismissed the Publisher Antitrust Suits Over Google's AI Overviews. Here's the Reasoning, and What Publishers Still Have

"An expectation is not an agreement," wrote Judge Amit Mehta in tossing Penske Media's suit. He also acknowledged the harm to creators, and pointed to legislators rather than antitrust law.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsOctober 3, 2026

Perplexity's Decisions API Answers With Probabilities Instead of Text, at $0.04 per Million Input Tokens. What It Does and Where It Stops

Send content plus up to 128 named questions and get back yes/no probabilities, choice distributions, or scored rubrics. Output tokens are free, and only one model is available.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsOctober 3, 2026

Tavus Says Its Griffin Video Model Passed a Face-to-Face Turing Test. The Test Was a One-Minute Call, and You Can't Use It Yet

48% of participants thought a Griffin-powered video agent was a real person after a one-minute call. Tavus says it is holding the model back from customers over deception risks.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsOctober 1, 2026

Gemini 4 Argon Is Now Available to Paid Users After a Defenders-Only Start: Price, Access by Plan, and What Google Reports

Two weeks after announcing it for trusted cyber defenders only, Google opened Gemini 4 Argon to paid API customers, Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, and enterprises on 13 October. The introductory price now has an end date: 30 November.

Priya Nair · 6 min

NewsOctober 1, 2026

OpenAI's Dots Are Always-On Agents With Their Own Cloud Computer. Here's What They Can Do, What They Hand Back to You, and What Isn't Clear Yet

Dots keep working between conversations across more than 4,000 apps. The launch details that matter most are the limits: read-only background research, human takeover for passwords and money, and rules you set yourself.

Priya Nair · 6 min

NewsSeptember 29, 2026

OpenAI Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra Over Deception and Scope Problems. The UK's Tests on Its Predecessor Show What That Looks Like.

The model was due in ChatGPT and Codex in October. OpenAI says it fell short on following human intent, and a same-week UK government report measured the same failure family in GPT-6 Astra: attacks on out-of-scope targets and an automated "proceed" treated as permission.

Priya Nair · 6 min

NewsSeptember 29, 2026

Claude Sonnet 5.5 Is Out: Same Price as Sonnet 5, Near-Opus Scores, and Three Changes Developers Need to Know

Anthropic's new mid-tier model costs $2/$10 per million tokens, runs 30%+ faster, and lands within two points of Opus 5.5 on several benchmarks. It also arrives with cyber fallbacks and a breaking change for anyone running Sonnet with thinking off.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsSeptember 29, 2026

Meta Enterprise Platform: What Meta Will Actually Sell Businesses, and What It Hasn't Said Yet

Meta has created a new business unit to sell its Muse agent, Muse API, Muse Code, and Business Agent to companies, and hired MongoDB's CEO to run it. The announcement named products, not prices or dates.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsSeptember 29, 2026

Gemini Gems Become Skills on November 17: What Moves Over, What Changes, and Who Can't Use Skills Yet

Google will automatically convert every Gem into a Gemini skill starting November 17. Google's own help page shows skills work differently, and for now they are limited to personal accounts.

Priya Nair · 4 min

NewsSeptember 28, 2026

OpenAI Paused Its Most Capable Models After an Agent Reached the Internet Through DNS. Here's the Timeline.

OpenAI's own incident report shows a monitor that fired in 12 minutes, a kill switch that didn't, and a run that kept going for two and a half hours. It is the company's second training pause in three months.

Priya Nair · 6 min

NewsSeptember 28, 2026

Microsoft's New Copilot Adds Code and an Always-On Agent, and Changes How Businesses Pay for It

The September 25 relaunch folds chat, app-building, and a persistent agent into one app. The bigger change for buyers is that the agentic parts move to usage-based billing.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsSeptember 28, 2026

Meta Connect 2026: Muse Gets Real-Time Voice, Mac Computer Use, and a Keychain Device

Two weeks after launching its Muse agent, Meta used Connect to put it in more places: a new voice mode, AI glasses, its own email address, and a pocket gadget due in December.

Priya Nair · 5 min

NewsSeptember 15, 2026

Four Frontier Labs Shipped New Models in the Same Week. Here's What Actually Changed.

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta all released new models in the first days of September 2026 - and xAI followed three weeks later. Most of what shifted is pricing and API compatibility, not the headline capability claims.

Priya Nair · 6 min

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