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Deep dives into AGI, ChatGPT, Claude, OpenAI and Anthropic.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28, 2026 — the second model in the Claude 5.5 family, running 30% faster and costing up to 30% less per task than Sonnet 5, at the same $2/M rate card.
OpenAI launched Dots at DevDay 2026 — always-on AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra with their own cloud computer, browser, memory, and access to 4,000+ apps. Rolling out to ChatGPT Pro ($100/mo) users, with specialist Dots for enterprise and a Microsoft Agent 365 integration.
Anthropic launched the Claude Marketplace on September 23 with 2,000+ connectors and plugins, Claude-powered products from CrowdStrike, Cursor, and Snowflake, and service partners Accenture and Deloitte. Built on MCP and Agent Skills.
Google DeepMind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in post-training and Google wants to release an early build 'as soon as possible' — much earlier than year-end — in his first public appearance since taking over the lab.
xAI released Grok 4.7 on September 21: 2.1 trillion parameters — a 40% increase over Grok 4.6 — trained partly on SpaceX engineering data, priced unchanged at $2 per million input tokens, and scoring competitively on CursorBench and AA-Briefcase.
Google's Gemini 4 has entered post-training, per DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu at The Information summit Sep 23–24. A concrete milestone in the three-way race with OpenAI and Anthropic — but no official Gemini 4 announcement from Google yet.
NPR's September 26 explainer maps the AI safety factions — effective accelerationists, the tech right, safety advocates, governance groups. AIPress reads the last two weeks of coverage through that map.
AI in education: 84% of US high school students now use generative AI for schoolwork, up from 79% in months. 37% of teachers use it for work-related tasks, per the OECD. Yet the Digital Education Council's 2026 global survey finds only 5% of students say AI has actually transformed how they learn. The evidence gap explained.
The AI conversation is dominated by white-collar anxiety — but the working-class effects are different, and more consequential. Apollo data: bottom 25% of earners saw wages fall 10.7% since 2023. BLS: non-college labor force participation down to 82.3%. McKinsey: 1.6M clerks at risk. A data-driven look at who AI is displacing, whose wages are falling, and who gets left behind.
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