AI News for September 23, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5: Fable-level performance for 40% less: Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in a new 5.5 family that matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most work while costing 40% less to run than Opus 5.
[NEWS] OpenAI cuts GPT-6 prices in half with Sol and Luna: OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, mid-tier and small offshoots of GPT-6 Astra, at half the API price of the 5.6 generation.
[RESEARCH] OpenAI's math-solving run took just a month, and its new watchdog includes Timothy Gowers: New details on OpenAI's claim to have resolved 100+ open math problems: training on the internal model reportedly started August 28, so the entire run took about a month, and OpenAI says its own mathematicians were surprised by the pace.
[NEWS] Trump rejects international AI pact at the UN, calls guardrails a 'globalist scheme': Trump used his UN General Assembly address to dismiss calls for an international agreement on frontier AI guardrails, saying the US "totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control" the technology.
[NEWS] Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops open models as Anthropic accuses it of siphoning Claude: Xiaomi released its MiMo-V2.6 lineup, and the flagship MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores 46 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, making it the strongest openly available model, ahead of Kimi K3 and Qwen.
[NEWS] Altman and Amodei to brief the UN Security Council on AI: Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are set to address the UN Security Council on Wednesday at a session dedicated to the future of AI.
[NEWS] Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 runs a 30B MoE model on-device: Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and a new Extreme variant at its Snapdragon Summit, both on 2nm with two big cores to 5GHz.
[NEWS] Pentagon blames overreliance on AI for missile strike on Iran school: The Pentagon concluded that overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that hit a school in Iran, according to a Bloomberg investigation.
[NEWS] Toyota will deploy 400,000 factory robots and is having workers train them: Toyota plans to put 400,000 robots to work across its manufacturing base, 150,000 in its own automotive plants and 250,000 at group suppliers, investing $6.42B a year starting in 2028.
[NEWS] Alibaba Cloud opens data centers in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands: Alibaba Cloud will launch data centers in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands over the next 12 months, starting with the Dutch site in October, and will expand existing capacity in Malaysia, Germany and the UAE.

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