Jorick van Weelie
Marketing Lead at DataNorth | AI Enthusiast & Tech Storyteller
Articles written by Jorick van Weelie
PHP2Shell: AI found holes in every PHP version since 2012,
On 21 October, Wiz disclosed PHP2Shell, two critical PHP flaws it found with Google's Gemini 4 Argon and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol. Attackers can use them to take over web servers
Microsoft lets an EU partner oversee engineer access for European
On 20 October 2026 Microsoft started rolling out Data Guardian for cloud customers in the EU and EFTA. A trusted EU partner, which Microsoft does not name, oversees qualifying remote
Model Hardware Standard (MHS): What it is, How it works,
This guide explains how MHS works, how it compares to MCP and existing standards, what the pilots showed, and what is still planned.
Mistral’s Timestral forecasts on a CPU, but its free licence
Mistral released Timestral on 15 October 2026: four open models, from 5M to 209M parameters, that forecast sales, energy or sensor data without training and run on an ordinary CPU.
ChatGPT Voice gets GPT-Live-1.1, with 13 new voices in seven
OpenAI started rolling out GPT-Live-1.1 in ChatGPT Voice on 15 October 2026. The update brings 13 new voices for French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mexican Spanish and English.
AI effort levels explained: when to use low, medium, high
Effort levels decide how long an AI model thinks before it answers, and that choice changes quality, speed and cost at the same time. This guide explains how ChatGPT, Claude,
Claude Haiku 5.5 matches GPT-6 Luna’s price and beats it
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on 7 October 2026. It costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, the same as GPT-6 Luna, and in Anthropic's
ChatGPT’s textGrain watermark arrives in the EU
OpenAI announced on 5 October 2026 that ChatGPT and Codex will watermark the text they write for EU users, on every plan, to meet the AI Act's marking rule. The
What it costs to keep an AI system running after
Running an AI system costs four things: cloud and model usage, maintenance hours, ownership and coordination, and retraining where a trained model is involved.
Cloudflare releases Clef and Clef-flash
Cloudflare released Clef and Clef-flash on 1 October 2026, two open-weight decision models that return probabilities instead of text. Clef-flash decides in 38.8 milliseconds at the median, both carry a
Microsoft releases MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming
Microsoft released MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming on 1 October 2026, its first real-time transcription model, with MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash. Microsoft reports a 2.5% word error rate and a final transcript 0.13 seconds after
Perplexity releases pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview
Perplexity released pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview on 30 September 2026, an MIT-licensed embedding model with open weights on Hugging Face.
Liquid AI releases d1
Liquid AI released d1 on 29 September 2026, a decision model that classifies, routes and scores without generating a single output token.
ElevenLabs releases Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo
ElevenLabs released Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo on 28 September 2026. Turbo starts speaking after about 150 milliseconds, against 262 for Cartesia Sonic 3.6 and 814 for OpenAI's GPT-4o
MiniMax releases M3.1-Flash-Preview
MiniMax released M3.1-Flash-Preview on 27 September 2026, a coding model with a 1,000,000-token context that runs only inside the company's MiniMax Code tool.
Jev: What it is and why this new model matters
Jev is TypeSafe AI’s first public System One model. Instead of generating text it evaluates a state against typed questions and returns choices, scores and probabilities with a confidence estimate.
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark
Liquid AI's new DSpark drafter accelerates LFM2.5-VL-3B without replacing the underlying vision model. Vendor tests show up to 3.13x faster decoding and 2.62x end-to-end gains, with the largest benefit where
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS
Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS on 23 September 2026. Flash-Lite costs $6 per million audio output tokens until the end of the year, then
Recraft releases Recraft V4.1 Flash
Recraft released Recraft V4.1 Flash on 23 September 2026, generating a roughly 1,000 pixel image in about 1.5 seconds for $0.007, around a fifth of the price of Recraft V4.1.
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on 22 September 2026 at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, which it says is 40 percent cheaper to run
