Today in AI — 2026-09-22

Top AI stories of the day, ranked by source authority + keyword signal. Auto-curated from 27 trusted sources.

1. Introducing GPT-6 Sol and Luna

Source: OpenAI Blog · Signal: 76 ·

Meet GPT-6 Sol and Luna, two models that bring frontier intelligence to everyday work with different balances of capability and cost.

2. [AINews] Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6-Pro 1T-A42B: the new top Open Weights model, trained for $3M

Source: Latent Space Podcast · Signal: 74 ·

crowning a new Chinese frontier lab

3. Better prompt caching for GPT-6

Source: OpenAI Blog · Signal: 70 ·

Learn how GPT-6 improves prompt caching with higher cache hit rates, new diagnostics, explicit breakpoints, and controls that reduce latency and costs.

4. Parallel cut research time and cost in half with GPT‑6 Astra

Source: OpenAI Blog · Signal: 69 ·

GPT‑6 Astra allowed Parallel’s agents to research and synthesize labor-market data in half the time and at half the cost vs. prior models.

5. Priorities and principles for effective third party assessments

Source: OpenAI Blog · Signal: 68 ·

OpenAI outlines priorities and principles for rigorous, secure, and independent third-party AI safety assessments of frontier models and safeguards.

6. Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war

Source: Simon Willison Blog · Signal: 65 ·

7. llm-typesafe 0.1a0

Source: Simon Willison Blog · Signal: 65 ·

8. llm 0.36

Source: Simon Willison Blog · Signal: 64 ·

9. llm-anthropic 0.29

Source: Simon Willison Blog · Signal: 64 ·

10. 🔬 An Oscar, Two Asteroids, and the Algorithm in Your sklearn: John Platt on AI for Science

Source: Latent Space Podcast · Signal: 62 ·

We talked to Google’s Oscar winning “Giganerd” about automating science, solving climate change, and how future generations can contribute to science in the age of superintelligent AI

11. Z.ai says sorry for slurping up your code, open sources ZCode

Source: Hacker News - AI · Signal: 62 ·

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/22/zai-says-sorry-for-slurping-up-your-code-open-sources-zcode/5298300 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807362 Points: 2 # Comments: 0

12. How UK AISI and EvalEval Are Making Benchmark Results Reproducible

Source: Hugging Face Blog · Signal: 62 ·