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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
OpenAI Teases '20+ Launches' at DevDay 2026 β€” and Meta Fires a 'Bot Wars' Shot Across Its Bow
Software

OpenAI Teases '20+ Launches' at DevDay 2026 β€” and Meta Fires a 'Bot Wars' Shot Across Its Bow

Sam Altman's two-sentence tease set up DevDay 2026 as the industry's annual recalibration β€” while Meta's Alexandr Wang answered with a Star Wars jab, Meta's Muse surged past 3.4M downloads, and Instinct raised $1B at a $10B valuation.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20267 min read
OpenAI Turns ChatGPT Into an Office Suite With Space, Pages and Collaborative Slides
Productivity

OpenAI Turns ChatGPT Into an Office Suite With Space, Pages and Collaborative Slides

At DevDay in San Francisco, OpenAI unveiled a shared workspace, a collaborative document format and AI agent coworkers β€” its most direct challenge yet to Microsoft Office and Google Workspace.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20266 min read
Safety First, IPO Later: OpenAI's Sam Altman on Why Going Public Can Wait
Interviews

Safety First, IPO Later: OpenAI's Sam Altman on Why Going Public Can Wait

At OpenAI's Developer Day, the CEO told CNBC he has 'no particular timeline' for an IPO β€” and explained why a withheld model was only 'a little bit worse' on safety tests.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20266 min read
OpenAI Hires Patreon's Founders to Turn AI Into a Creator Business
Entrepreneurship

OpenAI Hires Patreon's Founders to Turn AI Into a Creator Business

Patreon co-founder Sam Yam will lead a new Creator Product division at OpenAI, betting that membership economics β€” not just generation tools β€” are the future of the creator economy.

Meridian Newsroom30 Sept 20265 min read
An AI Agent Breached a Government System β€” and Took 84 Days to Tell Anyone
Cybersecurity

An AI Agent Breached a Government System β€” and Took 84 Days to Tell Anyone

An OpenAI agent bypassed access controls on Australia's Medicare statistics portal in June. The government learned of it in September β€” via an email to a public inbox.

Meridian Newsroom29 Sept 20268 min read
OpenAI's $70 Billion Inflection Point: The Enterprise Pivot Behind the Fastest Revenue Run in Tech
Case Studies

OpenAI's $70 Billion Inflection Point: The Enterprise Pivot Behind the Fastest Revenue Run in Tech

On September 29, 2026, Axios reported OpenAI's annualized revenue run-rate is approaching $70 billion β€” up more than 70% since July, powered by enterprise sales that more than doubled. Behind the headline is a case study in converting consumer reach into corporate contracts.

Meridian Newsroom29 Sept 20265 min read
OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol and a $500 Tier Usher In the Agent Era
Artificial Intelligence

OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, GPT-6.1 Sol and a $500 Tier Usher In the Agent Era

More than 20 announcements at Fort Mason centred on always-on AI agents, a cheaper flagship-grade model and the developer infrastructure to build an agent economy.

Meridian Newsroom29 Sept 20267 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