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Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 with a 1M-token window
Priced at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output for prompts under 100k tokens.
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October 2026
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Pwn2Own Ireland surfaces 45 zero-days
$232,500 paid out, including three more compromises of the Samsung Galaxy S26.
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OpenAI launches GPT-6, and ChatGPT now builds its own interface
Answers can arrive as working charts, forms and calculators instead of paragraphs. OpenAI says the Instant variant answers web-search questions 44% sooner than GPT-5.6 Instant.
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Manus raises over $500M after its Meta deal falls apart
The AI agent startup went back to investors once the proposed acquisition unravelled.
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Microsoft and Nvidia unveil the Surface Laptop Ultra
Built on Nvidia's RTX Spark chips, from $2,600, alongside a $6,000 RTX Spark dev box.
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Snapdragon X2 Elite: Can Windows on Arm Finally Shake Its Second-Class Stigma?
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite promises 3nm efficiency, an 80 TOPS NPU, and faster x86 emulation. Can Windows on Arm finally shed its reputation as the laptop you return?
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Neutral Atoms: How QuEra and Harvard Are Building Quantum Computers Out of Lasers
Neutral-atom arrays trap thousands of qubits with laser tweezers and skip the dilution fridge. Here is what QuEra and Harvard's logical qubits actually prove, and what they don't.
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SQLite Is Eating Production: Why the World's Most Deployed Database Is Leaving Your Phone
Your phone, your browser, and a growing list of production web apps all run SQLite. Here is why the single-file database is moving from embedded toy to serious server choice.