Manus 2.0 adds a timeline Video Editor and a Game Dev tool with multiplayer. We checked 10 official Manus pages: none gives a credit cost for either, and the server behind a multiplayer game starts at $30 a month.
ElevenLabs' Eleven v4 took first place on the Artificial Analysis Speech Arena at 1319 Elo on launch day. It costs $0.022 per 1,000 characters until 12 October, then $0.08: here is who should switch now and who should wait.
H Company's Holo4 ships two open-weight computer-use models. The 27B wins on long workflows at $2.94 per completed task but is research-only; the Apache 2.0 35B-A3B is the one you can self-host commercially.
NaiveAI's new MIT-licensed 309B coding model trails DeepSeek V4.1 Flash by 6.4 points on its own launch chart. Measured in the same harness, Claude Code, the gap is 2 points, and the cheaper model depends on your cache-hit rate.
Ollaya, the open-source runtime that serves Jev-style decision models locally, hit the Hacker News front page on 25 September. We ran three of its models on a CPU against 300 labelled examples: Laya is fastest and most overconfident, decider:0.8b the most accurate.
We ran C2PA-signed files through 34 ordinary export steps in Pillow, ImageMagick, sharp, oxipng, ExifTool and FFmpeg. Not one kept a valid Content Credential: 27 deleted it and 7 broke it.
UpGuard found 16,326 Supabase databases with tables anyone can read, many from apps built by AI coding agents. We tested 12 common RLS setups and wrote a 15-minute audit to check your own project.
Meituan's LongCat-2.5-Preview landed on 25 September with a 1M-token context, image and video input, and a free OpenCode tier. It costs $0.30 in and $1.20 out per million tokens direct, but Meituan has published no benchmarks yet.
Most AI video clips come out silent. Here is how to add synced footsteps, ambience and impacts in about thirty minutes, and why the licence decides the tool before quality does.
Whiteboard, an open-source app from the YC W26 startup /dev/fast, shipped on 24 September. Claude Code and Codex can draw diagrams, semantic diffs and decision logs that link back to the code. Here is how to set it up, and what leaves your machine.
Docker Cloud Sandboxes launched on 24 September at $0.14 an hour for 2 vCPUs, the lowest flat rate against E2B, Daytona and Modal. But Docker bills idle time, and coding agents spend much of theirs waiting on the model.
Google made Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar generally available on 24 September, a day after Meta showed Muse Realtime Avatar. The pricing pages and session docs tell a different story from the launch posts.
Placeholder domains like yoursite.com appear in 349 AI agent skills and anyone can own them. We scanned 658 popular skills, found 20 hits, and wrote a 10-minute audit.
Anthropic made Claude Code cloud sessions generally available on September 23, with a one-time $100 credit on Pro and $250 on Max. The VM is free; the credit pays for model usage, and on Opus 5.5 it goes less far than it sounds.
llama.cpp 0.5.0 shipped on 23 September 2026 with six new model families in its release notes. The download and file-size data on Hugging Face tells a narrower story about which of them you can actually run tonight.
CLM-8B, an open decision model from Stanford and NVIDIA released on 23 September, scores candidate actions up to 9x faster than Jev. Its 81.6% DeepSWE result is 31 of 38 tasks. Here is how to run it as a verifier for your coding agent.
On the same ten-second 720p clip, the fastest AI video upscaler finishes a 1080p pass in 41 seconds and the slowest finishes 4K in 560 seconds. A 13.7x spread, read for what it means for your pipeline.
Google's new Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS lead Hume AI's Voice Design Benchmark. The launch price is promotional, and every tier doubles on 1 January 2027.
Comfy Router reaches frontier media models across four hosting providers by changing two strings. The coverage matrix that makes that true has ten rows, against a catalog of more than 200 models, and the default translation mode drops parameters silently.
NVIDIA's free Nemotron 3 Diarization averages 19% error against 20% for the paid pyannoteAI API. Dataset by dataset it wins 4 of 11, and one of those wins is on audio it trained on.
Google's Antigravity SDK now runs agents on local models: Gemma 4 26B A4B through LiteRT-LM, or any OpenAI-compatible server such as Ollama, LM Studio or vLLM. We read the SDK source and the demo code behind its 97.2% local-token headline.
Meta opened Connect 2026 with six pairs of glasses spanning $249 to $1,299.99, and the pair it put on stage first cannot take a photograph. Read the spec sheets side by side and every camera-equipped pair captures the same 12 MP stills and 3K video.
Alibaba sold Qwen-Audio-3.1 with 70 to 95% price cuts. The biggest verifiable cut is on the older 3.0 Realtime Flash, whose audio output fell from $15 to $1.87 per million tokens.
Anthropic cut Opus pricing 20% and took the number one spot on the Artificial Analysis index. The line that will actually change your bill is the effort default, which dropped from high to medium.