AI news, Wednesday 7 October 2026

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Wednesday 7 October 2026

  1. LLMs & foundation models

    Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, its third Claude 5.5 model in a month

    Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday, the third model in its Claude 5.5 family in the past month, according to Reuters. Anthropic's news page describes it as its fastest, cheapest and most capable small model, aimed at high-volume, cost-sensitive work. Pricing and availability details were not confirmed in the pages reviewed.