Senne Doets
Online Marketeer at DataNorth | Next-Gen AI & Tech Apprentice
Articles written by Senne Doets
WhatsApp’s support chatbot was told not to recommend privacy regulators
On 19 October 2026, privacy company Redact reported 102 hidden AI instructions on 80 of 545 WhatsApp help pages. Written for the support chatbot of WhatsApp, which is owned by
GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 leave OpenAI’s API on 14 January 2027,
On 14 October 2026 OpenAI gave developers three months' notice: GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini leave its API on 14 January 2027, fine-tuned versions included. The recommended successor,
Meta’s Muse Wonder costs the same as Claude Opus 5.5,
Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full on October 12, 2026. Muse Wonder costs $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, matching Claude Opus 5.5,
Cloudflare’s Clef-omni scores video and audio without transcribing them first
Cloudflare released Clef-omni on 9 October 2026, an Apache 2.0 decision model that scores text, images, audio and video in a single Workers AI call. At $0.15 per million input
Cantina’s Apex Flash-1 trails Claude Opus 5
Cantina Security announced Apex Flash-1 on 1 October 2026, a 321 billion parameter open-weight model for vulnerability research under the MIT licence.
Gemini 4 Argon opens to all paying developers, and its
Since 13 October 2026, any paying Gemini API customer can use Google's Gemini 4 Argon, and Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers get it in the Gemini app. The $2
Which AI models are actually good at Dutch?
Gemini 3.7 Flash leads EuroEval’s Dutch leaderboard, but the headline ranking only tells part of the story. The top models are separated by just 2.5 points on Dutch language, yet
Cohere releases Embed 5 Pro and Embed 5 Fast
Cohere released Embed 5 on 30 September 2026. Embed 5 Pro costs $0.12 and Embed 5 Fast $0.08 per million text tokens, while sharing one vector space.
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol on 29 September 2026 at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, exactly one fifth of GPT-6 Astra's rates.
H Company releases Holo4
H Company released Holo4 on 28 September 2026, a family of open-weight computer-use models that can navigate software, write code and call APIs.
Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on 28 September 2026, delivering 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 while keeping pricing at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.
NaiveAI releases Naive-N0.5-Flash
NaiveAI released Naive-N0.5-Flash on 27 September 2026, a 309B-parameter open-weight MoE model with 15.5B active parameters per token.
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Live
Google made Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar generally available on 24 September 2026. It gives voice agents an animated, lip-synced face across 97 languages.
Black Forest Labs releases FLUX 3 Action
Black Forest Labs’ FLUX 3 Action turns images and instructions into robot movement with just 7 billion parameters.
Qwen releases Qwen3.8 Max Prime
Alibaba’s Qwen team released Qwen3.8 Max Prime on 23 September 2026 as a new premium model in the Qwen lineup.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna
OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on 22 September 2026 at roughly half the price of their GPT-5.6 equivalents.
SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.7 at the same $2/$6 per million token pricing as Grok 4.6, with stronger coding benchmarks and a 500,000-token context window.
Reward AI launches OM-1
Reward AI published OM-1 on 14 September 2026, a robot manipulation policy trained only on recordings of people wearing a sensor glove, with no teleoperation and no on-robot data. The
Ant Group releases Ling-3.0-flash-VL
Ant Group's inclusionAI lab released Ling-3.0-flash-VL on 10 September 2026, a 124 billion parameter open-weights model that activates 5.5 billion per token.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on 10 September 2026 under the MIT licence, priced at $0.15 per million input tokens off-peak.
