Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7 with a price cut that rearranges the math of production AI work: about 90 percent cheaper than Haiku 4.5 on the prompts that matter. Short-context requests up to 100,000 tokens now cost 10 cents per million input tokens and 50 cents per million output tokens, with cache reads at a penny. Above the 100k line the discount drops to 50 percent.
Cloudflare rolled out Clef-omni on October 9, putting a new 30-billion-parameter model on Workers AI that does something most AI launches don't: it refuses to chat. Clef-omni is a decision model — it reads text, JSON, images, audio, and video in a single request and answers with calibrated probabilities over a schema of typed questions you define, with no prose and no output parsing.
The most senior Democrat on the Senate's tech committee wants frontier AI regulated the way airlines are: mandatory standards, independent audits, and no takeoff until the inspection passes.
The federal government no longer says "artificial intelligence." It says "Super Intelligence" — capital S, capital I — and President Trump would like you to know he is serious about the rebrand.
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