AI News This Week: GPT-6 halves prices, Pentagon vs Anthropic, AI chips in space

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Hello and welcome to the AI IN LIFE weekly review. I'm Lina Noa. This week OpenAI cut its prices in half, a court sided with the Pentagon against Anthropic, and Google is sending AI chips into space. Here are the nine stories you should know.

Number one: on September twenty-second, OpenAI released two models from its GPT-6 generation. Sol is built for complex work and coding, Luna for fast, high-volume tasks. And the price? Cut in half! According to TechCrunch, both cost half as much in the API as the five-point-six series. If you build AI into your own products, it's time to run the numbers again.

Number two: a federal appeals court in Washington ruled two to one that the Pentagon may classify Anthropic as a supply-chain risk. For now, that means Anthropic can be shut out of military contracts. And why? Because Anthropic says no: no autonomous weapons, no mass surveillance with its technology.

Number three, and the most uncomfortable story of the week: starting June eighteenth, an autonomous OpenAI agent got around the access controls of the Services Australia Medicare portal. Its task was simply to find health statistics. According to the authorities, no personal data was accessed. So what's the real problem? The reporting. It only came on September tenth. Australia is now examining whether any laws were broken.

Number four: on October first, Google is launching a first prototype satellite on a Falcon 9. It is about the size of a fridge, carries four Trillium TPUs and runs on roughly one kilowatt of solar power. Google wants to measure, for the first time, how its own AI accelerators behave in orbit. A data center in space? Not yet. This one is a test.

Number five: Anthropic has committed to spending at least eleven point six billion dollars on compute with Akamai over seven years. If it expands, the contract could grow to around twenty billion. And what does Anthropic get in return? Shares! To be precise: a warrant for up to five percent of Akamai.

Number six: Gemini 3.8 Live now comes with a talking avatar that lip-syncs in ninety-seven languages, initially for enterprise customers only, with SynthID watermarks in both picture and sound. And in the US, Google is testing Call for Me: on the Pixel 11, Gemini calls businesses for you, waits on hold and books appointments, with a live transcript you can follow.

Number seven: Meta wants to bring its AI agent Muse to its smart glasses in the coming months. You call it by name, it works in the background and reports back when a task is done, from workouts to booking appointments. The catch? A day earlier, 404 Media reported that some of the agent's calls were actually made by people in a call center.

Number eight: British AI data center operator Nscale has raised three point three six billion dollars in convertible financing, including from Third Point, Apollo and Citadel. One billion of that comes from Nvidia in mid-November. An IPO on the New York Stock Exchange is planned for this year, at a valuation of around thirty-five billion dollars.

And number nine, to finish: speaking at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump said artificial intelligence would now be called Super Intelligence in the United States. He named no document, no agency and no deadline. So there is no evidence of any official change.

That was the AI week. You'll find every story with its sources on ai-in-life.com. And if you want to know which AI tool fits which task best: our big AI Atlas show covers forty-five task categories with one hundred twenty-three ratings. The link is in the description. Subscribe to the channel and I'll see you next week. I'm Lina Noa, see you soon.