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On 5 November 2026 Anthropic launched Personal Finance for Claude, a read-only tool that connects bank and credit card accounts through Plaid so users can ask questions about their money in everyday language, with no ads or sponsored recommendations.
On 5 November 2026 OpenAI released ChatGPT Cyber, a model for cybersecurity work, limited to the top tier of its Daybreak Red programme. OpenAI says it scanned the Linux kernel and found flaws in Firefox.
A US bankruptcy court approved the bidding procedures for the sale of Character.ai's assets, with a 13 October 2026 agreement with Disney Worldwide Services as the stalking horse and an auction set for 1 December 2026.
Six AGIBOT G2 wheeled humanoid robots worked a 24-hour shift in an operating Shanghai convenience store, completing 1,730 tasks on a livestream, with four of the six passing the final assessment.
On 22 October 2026 iFlytek released Spark X2.6, a device-cloud model series, at its developer festival in Beijing. The same event also launched a speech foundation model and a digital-employee platform.
On 21 October 2026 Liquid AI released LFM3-Omni-2B, the first omni-modal model in its LFM3 family, taking text, images, video and audio as input and returning text or speech. At 2.17B parameters it targets phones and laptops.
On 15 October 2026 Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight, natively multimodal model with 816 billion total parameters, optimised to run on Apple's Mac Studio. Its weights were published on Hugging Face.
On 12 October 2026 Character.ai began a voluntary Chapter 11 case in Delaware to carry out a court-supervised sale of the company, warning that the platform will be wound down if no actionable bid emerges.
Waymo said it will launch its autonomous ride service in Toronto, its first Canadian city, with the first passengers planned for 2028.
Released on 28 September 2026, Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the second model of the Claude 5.5 family. It kept the price of Sonnet 5 and was the first Sonnet model to ship with cyber safeguards and anti-distillation classifiers.
Released on 22 September 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 is the first model of the Claude 5.5 family. Anthropic said it matched Claude Fable 5.1 on most work, at a lower price.
On 21 September 2026 xAI released Grok 4.7, with a larger base model and a longer reinforcement-learning run. Its Fast variant was limited to Cursor and Grok Build.
On 18 September 2026 Character.ai said its CEO Karandeep Anand was joining Disney as its Chief Technology Officer, a newly created role, with members of Character's technical team expected to follow.
Character.ai's CAI-Image family consists of image models post-trained from open-source Qwen-Image and tuned for character-driven storytelling, so the same character stays recognisable across styles, scenes and pages. The company announced the models on 16 September 2026.
On 7 September 2026 iFlytek released Spark X2.5, a 293B-A30B mixture-of-experts model trained and served on domestic compute, focused on code and agent tasks, with open-source on-device models supporting up to 1 million tokens of context.
On 2 September 2026 Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a security-focused variant limited to vetted defenders, three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash.
On 1 September 2026, Manus announced that it had formally resumed independent operations, with its founding team continuing to lead the company as an independent agent lab advancing general AI agents.
Zhipu released GLM-5.3 on 14 August 2026, a post-training upgrade built on the same base model as GLM-5.2, with large gains on coding and cybersecurity benchmarks; NIST's CAISI later called it the most advanced open-weight model in cybersecurity.
On 12 August 2026 xAI released Grok 4.6, a month after Grok 4.5, aimed at long-running agents. Pricing stayed the same, and the model launched across Cursor, Grok Build and the API.
On 11 August 2026 Manus published a note saying it would soon operate as an independent company again, setting out when some users' data would be deleted and when access would return.
