Friday, 16 October 2026
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The briefing

Friday, 16 October · the key facts, one line each
  1. 1
    ASML says AI demand means its 2027 and 2028 supply will fall short, after record €11.7 billion quarter

    ASML reported total net sales of €11.7 billion and net income of €5.0 billion for the third quarter of 2026 on 14 October.

    Chips & Compute
  2. 2
    Anthropic says it replaced Git with its own source control system, Scion, after daily merges passed 30,000

    Anthropic said on 13 October 2026 that it moved its monorepo from Git to Scion, a version control system it built in-house, after daily merges rose from about 2,500 in May to over 30,000 in September.

    Tools & Apps
  3. 3
    xAI releases Grok Voice 3.0 for voice agents at the same $0.08-a-minute price as before

    xAI released Grok Voice 3.0, a speech-to-speech model for voice agents, on 14 October 2026.

    Models & Launches
  4. 4
    Eight US states sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT harmed children and that the company misled the public about its safety

    Attorneys general from eight US states filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI on 14 October 2026.

    Policy & Regulation
  5. 5
    OpenAI will remove GPT-4o and GPT-4.1 from its API on 14 January 2027 and points developers to GPT-6 Luna

    OpenAI said on 14 October 2026 that it will remove GPT-4o, GPT-4o mini, GPT-4.1 and GPT-4.1 mini from its API on 14 January 2027.

    Models & Launches

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Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle DeepMind1M tokens (shared input/output)$2 (intro), then $4Yesterday

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