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Claude Opus 5.5 tops the Intelligence Index on September 22, 2026
On September 22, 2026, Artificial Analysis scored Claude Opus 5.5 at 58 on its Intelligence Index at max effort.
Mistral OCR 4.0 retired with Leanstral 1.5 on September 30, 2026
Mistral AI deprecated OCR 4.0 and the experimental Leanstral 1.5 on September 29, 2026 and retired both the next day.
Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0 retired on October 2, 2026: calls move to 2.0
xAI's speech-to-text model grok-voice-transcribe-1.0 reached end of life on October 2, 2026.
Oracle to buy Point Beach nuclear power for Project Lighthouse, Oct 2, 2026
Oracle will take part of Point Beach's nuclear power for Project Lighthouse, pending Wisconsin approval.
ARC Prize publishes GPT-6 Astra ARC-AGI-3 results on September 3, 2026
On September 3, 2026, ARC Prize reported GPT-6 Astra at 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3 Semi-Private with its Standard harness.
Meta expands Louisiana data center to 5 GW on July 13, 2026
Meta said on July 13, 2026 that it is expanding its Richland Parish, Louisiana data center to 5 GW.
Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 release on September 1, 2026
Claude Fable 5.1 release: Anthropic shipped Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, one model with two safeguard levels, on Sep 1.
OpenAI and Synopsys announce GPT-Synopsys for chip design, Sep 30, 2026
OpenAI and Synopsys agreed on September 30, 2026 to build GPT-Synopsys, a model that runs Synopsys chip design tools.
CoreWeave puts Vera Rubin NVL72 into production with Cognition, Sep 30, 2026
CoreWeave opened Vera Rubin NVL72 on September 30, 2026; Cognition is the first customer running production on it.
Amazon Built Together: $1 billion for data center communities, Oct 2, 2026
Amazon's Built Together, announced October 2, 2026, adds over $1 billion in five years for its US data center towns.
AMD launches Instinct MI400 Series on July 23, 2026: MI455X and MI430X
AMD launched the Instinct MI400 Series on July 23, 2026: the MI455X for frontier AI and the MI430X for HPC.
Meta breaks ground on 1 GW Sturgeon County data center on July 8, 2026
Meta broke ground on a 1 GW AI data center in Sturgeon County, Alberta, its first in Canada, on July 8, 2026.
OpenAI model deprecations, October 1, 2026: GPT-5.1, Codex and TTS
OpenAI model deprecations on October 1, 2026 cover GPT-5.3-Codex, GPT-5.1, GPT-5.4-Nano and three TTS models.
US eases AI chip export rule for the UAE on July 14, 2026: the changes
A US rule published on July 14, 2026 lets approved UAE entities receive advanced computing items without a license.
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra release on September 3, 2026: what's new
GPT-6 Astra release: OpenAI shipped its most capable model on September 3, 2026, with a Critical cybersecurity rating.
Boston Dynamics unveils 13-DOF Atlas robot hand on October 1, 2026
Boston Dynamics showed a new Atlas robot hand on October 1, 2026: 13 degrees of freedom and tactile sensing.
Google's Project Suncatcher puts TPUs in orbit on October 1, 2026
Google's first Project Suncatcher satellite, built with Planet, took TPUs to orbit on October 1, 2026.
JERA, Dell and RHAELM plan 400 MW AI data center in Chiba, Oct 1, 2026
JERA, Dell and RHAELM signed an MoU on October 1, 2026 for an AI data center of up to 400 MW in Chiba, Japan.
AI news September 2026: models, chips and data centers
AI news for September 2026: GPT-6 Astra, Claude Opus 5.5 and Gemini 4 Argon, plus chip roadmaps and power deals.
AI news August 2026: models, chips and data centers
AI news for August 2026: a Google DeepMind leadership change, OpenAI's 8 GW PORTS-Pike deal and Nvidia's Q2 results.
AI news July 2026: models, chips and data centers
AI news for July 2026: GPT-5.6, AMD's Instinct MI400 Series, Claude Opus 5 and new gigawatt-scale campuses.
OpenAI DevDay 2026, September 29: GPT-6.1 Sol, Dots and Agents API
OpenAI DevDay 2026 on September 29 brought GPT-6.1 Sol, always-on Dots agents and an Agents API with Computer Use.
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on September 22, 2026
OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on September 22, 2026 in ChatGPT Work, Codex and the API.
Constellation, Amazon sign 20-year Calvert Cliffs deal on Sep 30, 2026
Constellation and Amazon signed a 20-year, 690 MW Calvert Cliffs nuclear power deal on September 30, 2026.