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Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5.5, the second model in the 5.5 family
Per Anthropic's own announcement, Sonnet 5.5 is priced the same as Sonnet 5 ($2/$10 per million tokens) but runs about 30% faster and uses meaningfully fewer tokens per task, coming close to Opus 5.5's performance on several benchmarks despite being the cheaper, mid-tier option. It's live now on the Claude Platform, AWS, Google Cloud and Azure; Claude Haiku 5.5 is coming "in the following weeks" to complete the family.
Signal: this lands almost exactly a week after Opus 5.5 (Sep 22) and follows the same playbook — same price as its predecessor, meaningfully faster, fewer tokens burned per task. It's also the first Sonnet-tier model to ship with the cybersecurity safeguards previously reserved for Anthropic's top-tier systems, a notable safety-posture upgrade for a "workhorse" model.
Source: anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-5-5
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OpenAI's DevDay 2026 keynote is today, with rumors pointing at a persistent AI agent codenamed "Aeon"
OpenAI posted a 12-second "Get ready." teaser overnight, and Sam Altman separately wrote he's "pretty excited for DevDay tomorrow [today] — we have found a new thing." The Verge reports persistent rumors of an agent called Aeon, OpenAI's answer to Meta's Muse and Grok Bot, alongside unconfirmed chatter about a Jony Ive hardware update and a possible GPT-6 Astra refresh. None of this is confirmed by OpenAI itself yet — the keynote hasn't happened as of this briefing.
Signal: yesterday this was just a teased date on OpenAI's own page; overnight it firmed into a specific rumor — a Meta Muse/Grok Bot-style always-on agent — and Sam Altman posted his own tease ("we have found a new thing"), which is as close to lab confirmation as exists right now. Still worth treating as rumor until OpenAI's own keynote, later today.
Source: theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1001590/openai-devd…
