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Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 this Monday, as an upgraded version of Sonnet 5 launched in June this year. The official statement claims that this mid-range model operates over 30% faster than the previous generation, excelling in clearly defined daily tasks, fixing defects, and creating documents, slides, and spreadsheets, while also possessing sharp design capabilities. Its pricing remains at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, which is half of Opus 5.5, and the token consumption per task is nearly one-third less than Sonnet 5.In the Terminal-Bench 4 test, Sonnet 5.5 scored 70.6%, higher than Opus 5.5's 66.4%, and Sonnet 5's score was only 10.3%. Results from the independent testing organization Artificial Analysis also show its lead, recording 63.6% and 59.6%, while OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scored 59.1%. In the GDPval-AA assessment of real job performance across 44 occupational categories, Sonnet 5.5 received a score of 1844, which is roughly on par with Opus 5.5's score of 1846, while GPT-6 Sol scored 1487.

On Monday, the oracle network Chainlink released the cross-chain interoperability protocol CCIP 2, making significant upgrades to its communication and cross-chain bridge infrastructure. The new version allows enterprises to add their own security verification checks on top of Chainlink's default network of 16 independent node operators. Enterprises can run their own validators or hire external service providers such as Infosys and Nethermind. Chainlink stated that users should not be forced to become "cross-chain security infrastructure experts."This upgrade comes about five months after the Kelp DAO was hacked in April of this year. The attackers are reportedly linked to the North Korean Lazarus group, stealing approximately $292 million in rsETH by deceiving the single validator relied upon by the Kelp cross-chain bridge, which operates on LayerZero. LayerZero blamed Kelp for using only a single validator, while Kelp stated that LayerZero employees had reviewed its setup and raised no objections. Kelp subsequently announced that it would migrate rsETH to Chainlink.The upgrade also adjusts the security mechanism that Chainlink had previously heavily promoted; its risk management network will no longer operate as an independent review node, with such independent checks now provided by optional validators. This means that users who have not added any validators currently rely on a single validation network, whereas previously they relied on two. Existing Chainlink users have been automatically migrated to the new version, but the company has not disclosed which institutions are using the new validators, only stating that Aave and Maple have begun adopting other features of the upgrade.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin announced today that the original novel "Snowmoon" has been completed, consisting of 32 chapters.The novel unfolds in a speculative science fiction setting, depicting a world that heavily relies on cryptography and decentralized governance. The story focuses on the ideological conflicts between societies such as Veridia and the Arctic Empire, involving elements like zero-knowledge proofs, second voting, privacy technologies, and content-oriented tax mechanisms, integrating themes of mechanism design and digital sovereignty that have long been of interest to Vitalik.The work is released under the GPL v3 license. Vitalik stated that adaptations into films, animations, and other derivative works are allowed, but requires the related production pipeline (including AI prompts, scripts, and other non-generic materials) to be open-sourced. He declared that all text was written by him, with AI assistance only used for spelling and grammar checks, consistency verification, and webpage formatting, and noted "Snowmoon was written with love."

Michael Saylor, the founder and executive chairman of Bitcoin Strategy Company, has once again released information related to Bitcoin Tracker, with the caption "Even more orange."According to previous patterns, Strategy usually discloses changes in Bitcoin holdings the day after relevant news is released.

Vitalik posted on the X platform that a new Solidity compiler has been released.It is reported that the new version, built using Zig, was created to avoid waiting for the long 10-minute Solidity compilation process. While maintaining consistent bytecode generation, the compilation speed for some contracts has increased by more than 5 times. The build time has been reduced from 10 minutes to 2 minutes, and the incremental compilation time for large projects has decreased from 700 seconds to 99 seconds.

The multi-chain Meme trading terminal GMGN released a recruitment notice on September 23, seeking talent globally, with 8 key positions available.This recruitment focuses on two main areas: product management and research and development. In the product management area, there are three positions: social community, user conversion, and on-chain trading, all based in Hong Kong and requiring full-time commitment. In the research and development area, there are five positions: EVM trading routing engineer, on-chain data development engineer, senior backend development engineer, senior blockchain development engineer (cross-chain direction), and smart contract engineer (Launchpad direction). Resumes should be sent to hr@gmgn.ai.GMGN stated that the team is dedicated to building the fastest multi-chain Meme trading terminal in the world, with members being deep on-chain users themselves. Recently, GMGN's perpetual contract trading feature was opened for public testing on September 21 and has supported 7 launch platforms including Pons on the Robinhood Chain.

The U.S. stock BNB Treasury Company Nano Labs issued a risk warning stating that its founder Jack Kong's personal X account has been compromised. Recently, the content related to tokens and artificial intelligence trading models posted on that account is neither authorized by him nor the company.The company emphasizes that it has not issued or endorsed any related token projects and reminds users not to click on suspicious links, transfer funds to related contracts, or trust private messages, to guard against fraud.

The stablecoin giant Tether's Tether AI Research today released QVAC Genesis III, a synthetic training dataset aimed at the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, with a scale of 19.143 billion tokens, covering 159.6 million documents.It is reported that Tether hopes to enhance the reasoning and teaching capabilities of small AI models, allowing more AI assistants to run directly on laptops, mobile phones, and local servers, reducing the ongoing reliance on large cloud models.Genesis III continues the data lineage of Genesis I and Genesis II, covering 19 curriculum-related fields including biology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer science, medicine, electrical engineering, and machine learning, aimed at high school, university, and professional applications. Tether states that the dataset will focus on training models to explain problem-solving paths, identify erroneous reasoning, and provide corrections, rather than just outputting final answers.According to Tether's disclosed test results, a 1.7 billion parameter model trained with Genesis III option-level data achieved an effective answer rate of 99.45% in relevant benchmark tests. Compared to the Cosmopedia-v2 training model of similar token scale, Genesis III improved scores on the ARC-Easy, ARC-Challenge, and MMLU STEM benchmarks by 28.57, 21.35, and 15.03 percentage points, respectively.

According to the FATF official website, FATF released the mutual evaluation report for Turkey in 2026 on September 23. The report shows that Turkey has made progress in the use of financial intelligence and international cooperation, but there are still significant shortcomings in money laundering investigations related to high-risk predicate crimes (such as drug trafficking and illegal gambling), recovery of overseas assets, and reporting of suspicious transactions.Turkey received a "partially compliant" rating for targeted financial sanctions related to proliferation financing (R.7) and regulation of non-profit organizations (R.8), and was ultimately placed on the enhanced follow-up list, requiring key rectifications to be completed within three years and regular progress reports.

On September 22, OpenAI released two new models, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, just minutes after Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5. Both models are positioned below GPT-6 Astra and are cheaper and faster options aimed at everyday work. OpenAI also reduced the API prices for both models by 50% compared to the promotional price of GPT-5.6, with Sol's input and output prices set at $2 and $10 per million tokens, respectively, while Luna's prices dropped to $0.1 and $0.5.In terms of performance, OpenAI cited Zapier's AutomationBench benchmark, stating that GPT-6 Sol scored 33.2% under the highest inference settings, with a cost of $0.27 per task, while Claude Opus 5 scored 26.9% at its highest settings, with a cost over 11 times higher per task. In the Agents' Last Exam test, GPT-6 Sol achieved a top score of 56.4%. In the OSWorld 2 computer usage test, GPT-6 Sol nearly matched Claude Opus 5's moderate effort score at 60.5% to 60.3%, with costs approximately 80% lower.

On Tuesday, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in its Claude 5.5 series. Anthropic stated that the new model's performance on most tasks has reached the level of its most expensive flagship model, Claude Fable 5.1, but the operating costs are 20% lower than the previous generation Opus 5 and 60% lower than Fable 5.1. In terms of pricing, the input and output token prices for Opus 5.5 are $4 per million and $20 per million, respectively, while the cache read price has dropped to $0.2 per million.In benchmark testing, Opus 5.5 scored 66.4% on Terminal-Bench 4, higher than Fable 5.1's 55.8% and GPT-6 Astra's 57.9%; FrontierCode scored 54.4%, higher than Fable 5.1's 50.3%; GDPval-AA v2.1 scored 1846, higher than Fable 5.1's 1735. However, GPT-6 Astra still leads Opus 5.5 in the AutomationBench and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 tests.This is the first model released after Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on the industry to slow down the pace of AI capability enhancement, and it continues to use the same cybersecurity and biosafety measures as Fable 5.1.

PPP market prediction tool monitoring shows that the probability of "Polymarket's next Claude Opus model being released on September 22" has risen to 77%, up 50% in 24 hours. Only the new model officially named "Opus" by Anthropic counts, such as Claude Opus 5.1, Opus 5.5, Opus 6, etc. Other names like Sonnet, Haiku, Fable, Mythos do not count unless officially named Opus by Anthropic.The release time is based on the calendar date in Eastern Time, USA. It must be genuinely open to the public to trigger settlement. Public beta and open rolling waitlists count; closed beta, invitation-only, or private access do not count. If the model name, placeholder, or labeling error appears only on Anthropic's official website, but the model is not actually available for public use, it does not count as released. The final settlement will primarily rely on official information from Anthropic, verified with credible media reports.

The All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce organized the 28th large-scale survey of private enterprises, with a total of 6,350 companies participating that have an operating income of over 1 billion yuan in 2025. Among them, the top 500 companies by operating income are the 2026 China Private Enterprises Top 500. In 2025, the total operating income of the Top 500 private enterprises reached 44.93 trillion yuan, with an average of 8.9851 billion yuan per household, an increase of 4.35% compared to the previous year; total assets reached 53.74 trillion yuan, with an average of 10.7479 billion yuan per household, an increase of 5.05%. A total of 29 companies made it to this year's Fortune Global 500 list.The net profit of the Top 500 private enterprises was 1.83 trillion yuan, with an average of 3.652 billion yuan per household, an increase of 1.31%. The proportion of companies in the secondary industry and manufacturing industry accounted for 74.40% and 70.60%, respectively, with the total operating income of the manufacturing industry reaching 32.22 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.73%. The actual reported total R&D expenditure of enterprises was 1.26 trillion yuan, with an average R&D investment intensity of 2.95%; total exports reached 1.97 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.25%; total tax payments amounted to 1.30 trillion yuan, and the total number of employed persons was 11.9633 million.

The founder and executive chairman of Bitcoin Treasury Company Strategy, Michael Saylor, has once again released information related to Bitcoin Tracker, with the caption "A little more orange".According to previous patterns, Strategy usually discloses changes in Bitcoin holdings the day after relevant news is released.

SpaceXAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2, with accuracy doubled and price unchanged.

The GLM team disclosed the first engineering practice of recursive self-improvement, completed by the Infra Agent powered by GLM-5.3, which designed, debugged, and optimized the GLM-5.3-Flash inference infrastructure.This practice was completed on a domestic cluster with a capacity of one hundred thousand cards, and the team referred to it as the first recursive self-improvement practice for large models in the country.

Huawei's rotating chairman Wang Tao stated at the Huawei Connect Conference 2026 that the Ascend 960 chip is ready ahead of schedule, achieving a doubling of performance. Among them, the Ascend 960DT will be released in Q1 2027, three quarters earlier than originally planned; the Ascend 960PR will be released in Q3 2027, one quarter earlier than originally planned.Wang Tao mentioned that they will adhere to an annual evolution pace, with the Ascend 970 planned for release in 2028 and the Ascend 980 planned for release in 2029.

On September 15, MediaTek announced the next-generation flagship chip, Dimensity 9600 Pro, at the 2026 Dimensity flagship product launch event. According to the official introduction, this chip is manufactured using TSMC's 2nm process, with over 33 billion transistors.The chip adopts a heterogeneous computing architecture that integrates CPU, GPU, NPU, ISP, and other computing cores, with AI as the core engine. It features an all-large-core architecture, equipped with dual super-large cores C2-Ultra at 4.55GHz, three large cores C2-Pro at 4.35GHz, and three large cores C2-Pro at 3.1GHz, along with 34.5MB of L2+L3+system cache, supporting LPDDR6 memory and UFS 5.0 flash storage. Compared to Dimensity 9500, the power consumption of the super-large cores has decreased by 37%, and the multi-core power consumption has decreased by 61%.In GeekBench V6.4, it scored 4276 points in single-core and 12650 points in multi-core, representing an improvement of about 17% in single-core and about 15% in multi-core compared to Dimensity 9500. The NPU adopts a dual NPU architecture, equipped with APU 1090, with peak performance improved by 51%. MediaTek claims to have maintained the number one position in global smartphone SoC market share for six consecutive years.