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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.
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.
On 5 November 2026 SenseTime announced the official version of SenseNova 6.8 Flash, a multimodal agent model for office and design work that offers free trial access.
In early November 2026 Meta acquired Conductor, a startup whose platform runs multiple AI coding agents in parallel workspaces. Conductor's cloud service was set to shut down on 20 November 2026.
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 22 October 2026 Anthropic handed the Agent Skills open standard — its name, logo, GitHub organisation and domain — to the Agentic AI Foundation, a Linux Foundation project, after more than 70 agent platforms had adopted it.
On 17 October 2026 DeepSeek shipped DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, an update to its smallest model with better benchmarks, faster task completion and shorter outputs; its weights were published and its Search and Fetch APIs opened at $0.75 per 1,000 calls.
On 15 October 2026, IFM and Inception42 announced Jais 3, six Arabic-centric language models from 900 million to 375 billion parameters plus a speech recogniser, evaluated on 24 audited Arabic benchmarks.
On 15 October 2026 Kuaishou's video generation model Kling 4.0 became available to all users, adding longer shots, more dynamic motion and Omni Reference, with a faster Flash variant released alongside it.
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.
Released on 7 October 2026, Claude Haiku 5.5 is the third model of the Claude 5.5 family. It is the first Haiku model with an adjustable effort setting, and its prices start at $0.10 per million input tokens.
MiniMax posted the weights of M3.1-Flash to Hugging Face on 17 October 2026. The model is a multimodal M3-line release with about 428 billion parameters, MiniMax Sparse Attention throughout, and DSpark speculative decoding.
In October 2026 Moonshot AI released Kimi K3.1 Pro, an open-weights upgrade for financial research, 3D modeling and coding. It was the first model in the K3.1 series.
On 28 September 2026 ElevenLabs released Eleven v4, a text-to-speech model it calls its most emotive yet, alongside a low-latency Turbo variant; the company says it topped Artificial Analysis and was preferred by about 75% of listeners in blind tests.
On 22 September 2026 PixVerse announced R2, a scaling release of its real-time world model that adds more data, tasks and input types at the same latency, and showed it running playable, prompt-editable worlds.
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.
On 10 September 2026 DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, a multimodal model with a causal encoder-decoder design that splits its active parameters between reading input and writing output. Its KV cache is much smaller than that of the previous generation.
On 9 September 2026 Suno released v6, a new generation of music models built with Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe, offered in three versions and paired with safeguards that screen uploaded audio and lyrics.
Runway published GWM Worlds 2 on 3 September 2026, a research preview that turns high-fidelity video and audio generation into a real-time interactive world model steered by text actions and camera motion.
