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23 September 2026
AI this week: a price war, hijacked assistants, and what is now worth automating
On 22 September 2026 Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 and OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half the price of the models they replace. The same week, AI assistants with account access were shown to be easy to hijack. For a small company that means two things: re-price automations you rejected on cost, and limit what any assistant can touch.
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