Answer card stating that on 15 September 2026 AWS said it is unable to restore access to resources and data hosted exclusively in the Middle East Bahrain region me-south-1 and in the mec1-az2 zone of the UAE region, because the damage spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what multi-AZ services are designed to withstand.

AWS can’t restore me-south-1, six months after the drone strikes

17 September 2026
Answer card stating that Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on 15 September 2026 at 3 dollars per million audio input tokens and 12 dollars out, that the thinking model requires asynchronous tools, and that Artificial Analysis scores it 82.6 on its Speech to Speech Quality Index.

Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking rejects any tool that blocks

16 September 2026
Answer card summarising the Atria Dawn Preview release: 744B GLM-5.2 base, MIT licence, 1.5 TB BF16 and 756 GB FP8 checkpoints, 256K context, top on five of sixteen benchmark rows and trailing on SWE-bench Pro.

Atria Dawn Preview is 744B under MIT, and the BF16 weighs 1.5 TB

15 September 2026
Answer card stating that OpenAI released the Agents API in public beta on 10 September 2026 with no separate fee, billed through model tokens, tool calls and hosted sandbox time, with a choice of OpenAI hosted, self hosted or partner sandboxes, US only data residency and no Zero Data Retention support.

OpenAI’s Agents API has no fee, no ZDR and a one hour sandbox clock

14 September 2026
Answer card: Sakana Fugu Max at $2 and $6 per million tokens, Fugu Ultra v2 unchanged at $5 and $30, and Sakana saying Ultra v2 scores without Fable 5 or GPT-6 Astra in its pool.

Fugu Max costs $2 and $6 while Fugu Ultra v2 runs without Fable 5

13 September 2026
Answer card stating that DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on 10 September 2026 as a 552 billion parameter mixture of experts model with a new causal encoder decoder architecture that activates 8 billion parameters on input and 16 billion on output, with native vision, a one million token context and MIT licensed weights, that the API model name is now deepseek-flash at 0.15 dollars per million input tokens and 0.60 dollars per million output tokens off peak, and that DeepSeek announced V4 Pro would be routed to V4.1-Flash from 14 September and reversed that on 11 September.

DeepSeek V4.1-Flash arrived, and the V4 Pro retirement lasted a day

12 September 2026
Answer card stating that Cognition released SWE-2 on 10 September 2026, a coding model post-trained from Kimi K3, scoring 50.0 percent on FrontierCode 1.1 Main against 50.9 percent for Claude Fable 5.1 and 27.3 percent on Terminal-Bench 4 against 55.8 percent, available only inside Devin.

SWE-2 trails Fable 5.1 by one point, and by 28 on Terminal-Bench 4

11 September 2026
Answer card for Meta Muse, free to 100 million tokens a week then $20 a month, launched 8 September 2026 for United States adults only, running in a dedicated per user virtual machine.

Does Meta Muse do enough to earn your inbox and a card on file?

9 September 2026
Answer card stating that the public download pages for the VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit on developer.broadcom.com began returning 404 errors on 25 August 2026 with no announcement or deprecation notice, that Broadcom support tells customers the kit is no longer available for use or download, and that release lines 7.0.3.1, 8.x and 9.x are all affected.

Broadcom pulled VDDK 8.0 and 9.0, and the 404 is the only notice

8 September 2026
Answer card stating that OpenAI published its research acceleration measurements on 6 September 2026, that as of mid August 2026 its research organisation logged 3.1 agent workdays of coding agent runtime for every workday of human labour normalised to a standard eight hour day, and that OpenAI states this should not be read as a 3.1 times productivity gain because it measures runtime rather than delivered output.

OpenAI’s 3.1 agent-workdays per human day is not a 3.1x gain

7 September 2026
Answer card stating that Mullvad announced on 3 September 2026 that it is shutting down its public encrypted domain name system servers on 2 November 2026 and sponsoring the Quad9 Foundation instead, with 194.242.2.2 and its five sibling addresses all going away, and virtual private network customers unaffected.

Mullvad’s DNS servers go dark on 2 November, and Quad9 blocks no ads

5 September 2026
OpenAI announcement image for GPT-6 Astra, a spiral galaxy of white, blue and amber points of light curling around a bright core on a near black star field.

GPT-6 Astra lists at $10 and $50, 2.5x what GPT-5.6 Sol costs

6 September 2026
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