Answer card: Xiaomi retrained MiMo-V2.6 to stop repeating tool calls, API swapped on 25 September 2026, MIT weights on 27 September, same model names.

MiMo-V2.6-Pro was quietly retrained to stop looping on tool calls

28 September 2026
Answer card: Anthropic committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai Cloud for CPU workloads only, with revenue from the second half of 2027.

Anthropic’s $11.6B Akamai deal buys CPUs, not GPUs

27 September 2026
Answer card: Google Suncatcher MVP satellite, four Trillium TPUs on about one kilowatt, launching on SpaceX Transporter-18, reported for 1 October 2026.

Google’s first Suncatcher satellite flies four TPUs on 1 kW

25 September 2026
Answer card for Claude Opus 5.5: 4 dollars in and 20 dollars out per million tokens, down from 5 and 25, with cache reads at 20 cents.

Claude Opus 5.5 drops to $4 and $20, and breaks four Opus 5 habits

23 September 2026
The official xAI announcement card for Grok 4.7, white type on a dark grey and navy gradient.

Grok 4.7 keeps $2 and $6, and its gains over 4.6 are xhigh versus high

22 September 2026
Answer card stating that Qwen-Image-2.1, released on 20 September 2026, ships open weights with a 7 billion parameter diffusion transformer, a Qwen3-VL 8B text encoder and an RGBA VAE totalling about 33 gigabytes in BF16, under the Qwen Research License that limits use to research or evaluation and requires a separate commercial licence, unlike the Apache 2.0 licence of Qwen-Image 1.0.

Qwen-Image-2.1 brings the weights back, but not the Apache licence

21 September 2026
Answer card stating that Ternary Bonsai 2 27B, released by PrismML on 17 September 2026 under Apache 2.0, packs Qwen3.8 27B into 5.95 gigabytes at 1.72 bits per weight, keeps 98.2 percent of the 14-benchmark average, about 75 percent on SWE-bench Verified and Terminal-Bench 2.1, and needs PrismML's llama.cpp fork to run.

Does Bonsai 2 27B really keep 98% of Qwen3.8 in 5.95 GB?

20 September 2026
Answer card stating that Jev 1.13 from TypeSafe AI is a decision model in early access since 15 September 2026 that returns typed probabilities instead of text, priced at 42 dollars per billion input tokens with output tokens free, answering in 70 to 500 milliseconds, with a 64K token request budget, text input only, and a documented list of things it does badly, including counting and dates.

Jev 1.13 bills $42 a billion tokens, and it can’t count

19 September 2026
Answer card stating that Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash launched on 17 September 2026 as an API only model on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, taking text, images, audio and video in a 1M token context and returning text only, priced at 0.15 dollars per million input tokens for every modality and 0.47 dollars per million output tokens in the international regions, with no open weights published and the Qwen-Live Harness GitHub repository returning 404.

Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash bills audio at $0.15 and ships no weights

18 September 2026
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
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