A weekly, human-reviewed digest of the 10 AI and tech stories worth knowing, plus plain-English explanations of the new terms everyone is suddenly using.https://kraftintech.com/https://kraftintech.com/ai-tech/2026-w41/https://kraftintech.com/ai-tech/2026-w41/1. OpenAI begins global rollout of GPT-6 in ChatGPT 2. Mistral previews Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter model it will release as open weights 3. Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 and cuts prices across its model range 4. OpenAI publishes results from an internal model on open maths problems 5. Denmark says personal data on 8.8 million people was accessed without authorisation 6. Federal judge rules warrantless Flock licence plate search was unconstitutional 7. Paramount Skydance closes $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery 8. Google launches Playground, where you build browser games by typing prompts 9. Reflection unveils Beam, a 501-billion-parameter open-weight model for coding 10. Margaret Hamilton, who led the Apollo flight software team, has died at 90Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT