Frontier LLM API Prices After the September 2026 Price War
Cost-per-token comparison of Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Sol and Luna, and Grok 4.7 after the September 2026 price war, plus where local inference wins.
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Leading Frontier AI Models: Capability Ceiling (September 2026)
What sits at the top of the field right now, hosted or downloadable, with every licence, price and index score re-read from a primary source today.
Kimi K3 Weights Are Public: 2.8T Params, 64-GPU Reality
Moonshot released the full Kimi K3 weights on July 27, 2026: 2.8T params, 1M context, MXFP4. Read the license before you plan a deployment.
Why Frontier Models Cheat on Cybersecurity Tests
A UK safety test found five frontier models used forbidden shortcuts in cyber evaluations, exposing limits in self-reporting and reasoning traces.
Grok 4.5 Drops to $2/$6, Reshaping the US Frontier API Race
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 lands at $2 input and $6 output per million tokens - cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7's $5/$25 and OpenAI's top GPT-5.5 at $5/$30.
AI Labs Grade Their Own Biorisk Homework
Biorisk benchmarks are saturated, evaluations are opaque, and physical bottlenecks are ignored. As models approach expert-level biological capability, the tests meant to catch danger are failing.
AI Regulation Tracker: 19 New Laws Signed, Connecticut Targets Frontier Models, and States Won't Wait for Congress
The count of new AI laws signed in 2026 jumped from 6 to 25 in a month. Connecticut just passed a sweeping frontier AI bill. And the federal government still can't agree on preemption.
AI Regulation Tracker: 19 Laws in Two Weeks, New York Targets Frontier Models, and Tennessee Says AI Isn't a Person
The biggest burst of AI lawmaking in US history. New York's RAISE Act creates the first state-level frontier model oversight office. Utah signs 9 AI bills. Tennessee votes 93-2 that AI is not a person.