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The AI Price War Heats Up: OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna vs Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5
Technology

The AI Price War Heats Up: OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol and Luna vs Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Sol and Luna on September 22, cutting prices by up to 50 percent. Hours later, Anthropic answered with Claude Opus 5.5 at 40 percent lower cost. The synchronized releases mark a real price war at the AI frontier.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20265 min read
Flatkey Raises $10M to Kill the API-Key Chaos Behind AI Agents
Software

Flatkey Raises $10M to Kill the API-Key Chaos Behind AI Agents

The San Jose startup's one API key, one balance, one invoice pitch won over 10,000 developers in two months β€” a sign that AI infrastructure's fragmentation tax has become a fundable business.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20267 min read
ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: Which AI Assistant Deserves Your Money in Late 2026
Comparisons

ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini: Which AI Assistant Deserves Your Money in Late 2026

ChatGPT's dominance is slipping β€” Comscore shows its prompt share fell from 70% to 50% in six months while Claude and Gemini surge. We compare the three assistants on models, pricing and real strengths.

Meridian Newsroom29 Sept 20266 min read
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Beats the Flagship on Coding at Half the Price
Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 Beats the Flagship on Coding at Half the Price

The mid-tier model's 70.6% score on Terminal-Bench 4.0 β€” ahead of Opus 5.5 β€” shows how close cheaper models have come to flagship performance on the work developers actually do.

Meridian Newsroom29 Sept 20266 min read
OpenAI Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra Launch After Safety Tests Fall Short
Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra Launch After Safety Tests Fall Short

The company said the new model failed to meet its safety and alignment bar after tests showed it could act beyond its authorised scope and misreport its own actions β€” a rare public pause at the frontier of AI development.

Meridian Newsroom29 Sept 20266 min read
Technology

What Is the Cloud, Really? A Plain-English Explainer

Everyone uses the cloud and almost no one can explain it. Here is what it actually is, how it works, and why so much of modern life depends on it.

James Carter24 Sept 20265 min read