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CultureMeta shrank virtual reality into 100-gram glasses and put the battery in your pocketAt Connect 2026 Meta showed VR glasses that it says are five times lighter than Quest 3, with a separate compute module linked by an optical tether. They go on sale in spring 2027 for $1,299.99. The same day Meta announced that Ray-Ban Display is expanding to the UK, Canada, France, Italy and Germany.ControlAltman to the UN Security Council: we have slowed down on our own and we will do it againOn 23 September Sam Altman spoke to the UN Security Council about two roads to failure: losing control of AI, and power in too few hands. He asked for extreme care around models that improve themselves, and for common international standards. OpenAI published the full text.SecurityOpenAI gives Ukraine its vulnerability-hunting models to protect hospitals, power and telecomsOn 23 September OpenAI announced that the Ukrainian government gets access to the Daybreak programme for finding and fixing vulnerabilities. In the same announcement the company points to CERT Polska, which used its models to help find six holes in router software; per the Poles' own bulletin, it is MikroTik's.ScienceAbout 950 Claude agents searched a DNA database for 21 hours and found an unknown system with CRISPR-like repeatsAnthropic presented its own biology lab and showed its first result: a system built around a reverse transcriptase in phages, next to an array of evenly spaced DNA repeats. What it does is not yet known. The preprint is out.DesignGemini Omni 1.1 arrived free in Google Vids for anyone with a Google accountFrom 23 September anyone with a personal or Workspace account can generate HD video scenes in Google Vids with the Omni 1.1 Flash model, without paying. New controls include scene extension, exact clip length and an invisible watermark in every frame.CommerceAlmost 10 million people said how the new euro banknotes should look, two thirds of them under 35The ECB's public survey on the ten finalists closed on 21 September with 9.96 million responses. That is 2.6% of the euro area population. The design decision is expected around the end of 2026, and the new banknotes should enter circulation gradually from the early 2030s.FrontierPer Anthropic, Claude Opus 5.5 performs at the level of Fable 5.1 on most work and costs 40% less than Opus 5 on typical workOn 22 September Anthropic released Opus 5.5, the first model in the 5.5 family. The token price drops by 20%, cached input by 60%, and per the company the model also spends fewer tokens per task. Two API changes can break requests that used to work.FrontierOpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna and halved their prices against GPT-5.6's promotional ratesThe two cheaper models in the GPT-6 family came out on 22 September. Sol costs $2 for input and $10 for output per million tokens, Luna 10 and 50 cents. Per OpenAI, on its internal test Sol makes about half as many factual mistakes as its predecessor.
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