AI & LLMs
OpenAI Decisions API opens to all developers in beta
OpenAI's Decisions API is now in public beta. It returns a probability, a pick or a score instead of text, runs on GPT-6 Luna and costs $0.10 per 1M input tokens.
API news and analysis
API news for developers: model APIs going generally available or changing price, new HTTP methods and their RFCs, standard-library deprecations, foreign function interfaces, and breach claims against API vendors. Each story names the version, the price where it applies, and what to change in code.
AI & LLMs
Sierra and Meta propose a standard for personal AI agents
Sierra and Meta announced the Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard for how shoppers' AI agents deal with businesses. Version 0.1 is due later in October.
Dev Stack
Claude for Google Workspace opens in public beta
Anthropic's Claude now works in a sidebar inside Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, in public beta on all paid plans, with edits approved one by one by default.
Dev Stack
GitHub stacked pull requests are now generally available
GitHub made stacked pull requests generally available on October 6, 2026, on every github.com plan, with stack-aware merge queues and the gh stack CLI.
Startup Watch
Claude Startups now adds a free year of Claude Team
Anthropic's expanded Claude Startups program gives founders a free year of Claude Team, $1,000 in API credits and up to $45,000 in partner offers.
AI & LLMs
Nano Banana 2.1 halves the price of Gemini images
Google's Nano Banana 2.1 image model costs $0.0336 per 1K image in the Gemini API, half the price of Nano Banana 2, which Google has now deprecated.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI textGrain watermarks ChatGPT text under EU AI Act
OpenAI's textGrain watermark is opt-in for API users from October 5 and coming to ChatGPT and Codex in the EU. It flags 95% of 400-token passages.
Dev Stack
GitHub App installation tokens are now 520-character JWTs
GitHub finished moving App installation tokens to a stateless format on October 2. They now run about 520 characters, up from 40, and old checks may break.
Dev Stack
Cloudflare AI Search goes GA with image search and OCR
Cloudflare AI Search is generally available as of October 1, 2026, with image embeddings, OCR and 10 MiB files. Billing starts November 1.
Dev Stack
ChatGPT plugin extensions add app panels and automations
OpenAI's plugin extensions, from DevDay on September 29, 2026, let developers ship app-like panels and automations to ChatGPT's 1.2 billion weekly users.
AI & LLMs
OpenAI Agents API adds computer use in a hosted browser
OpenAI's Agents API, in public beta since September 10, gained computer use at DevDay on September 29, 2026: agents can drive an OpenAI-hosted browser.
AI & LLMs
Claude Opus 5.5 cuts output price to $20 per million
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, at $4 input and $20 output per million tokens, with thinking always switched on.
Coding
Vulkan 1.4.363 adds an Intel GPU version query
Vulkan 1.4.363 ships VK_INTEL_device_info, an Intel extension that reports a GPU's graphics IP version as three plain numbers.
AI & LLMs
Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash cuts audio input costs by 98%
Alibaba's new omnimodal model reads text, images, audio and video inside a 1M-token context, and prices audio input more than 98% below its predecessor.
AI & LLMs
TypeSafe's Jev returns typed decisions, not text
Jev answers in 70 to 500 milliseconds and charges $0.042 per million input tokens, with output free. It cannot generate text at all.
AI & LLMs
GPT-6 Astra is generally available on Bedrock and Copilot
GPT-6 Astra is GA on Amazon Bedrock at $10 per million input tokens, and in GitHub Copilot for Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise plans.
Coding
HTTP QUERY has an RFC but almost no implementations
RFC 10008 gave HTTP a QUERY method in June 2026: safe and idempotent like GET, with a request body like POST. Almost nothing implements it yet.
Coding
Python 3.15 soft-deprecates re.match() for re.prefixmatch
Python 3.15 soft-deprecates re.match() in favor of the new re.prefixmatch(). Nothing breaks, nothing warns, and no removal is scheduled.
Dev Stack
Babashka 1.13.220 adds FFI for calling native libraries
Babashka 1.13.220 adds an FFI built on Java's Panama API, so a Clojure script can call a native library without writing a pod or any Java.
Tech Industry
FBI investigates a dark-web claim of 153M leaked license scans
A dark-web listing claims 153 million license scans from IDScan.net, an identity-check API businesses embed into their apps. The FBI is investigating; IDScan.net has not confirmed a breach.
AI & LLMs
DeepSeek warns developers a significant API price rise is coming
DeepSeek warned developers on August 6 that API prices will rise 'significantly' soon, with no figures or dates - while V4-Flash is the cheapest well-known model to run.
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