Tech 24 - September 23, 2026

Good morning. Here's what happened in tech over the last 24 hours.

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AI / MACHINE LEARNING • YESTERDAY

OpenAI Cut Its API Prices In Half With GPT-6

OpenAI shipped two models yesterday. Sol costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million out. Luna costs $0.10 and $0.50.

That is roughly half what the GPT-5.6 tier charged. OpenAI told VentureBeat the new prices are permanent rather than promotional. With Astra still at $10 and $50, there are now three tiers covering everything from heavy reasoning down to bulk clerical work.

Sol is aimed at coding and professional tasks. Luna is aimed at volume. If you budgeted for AI at last quarter's rates, that budget just changed. Go recheck what you're routing to the expensive tier, and why.

Source: VentureBeat

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AI / MACHINE LEARNING • TODAY

The UN Security Council Takes Briefings From AI Labs Today

France holds the Council presidency this month, and it convened an open session on AI and international security for 11am New York time today.

Yoshua Bengio briefs as co-chair of the UN's scientific panel on AI. Sam Altman appears in person and Dario Amodei remotely, alongside Hugging Face's Clément Delangue. DeepSeek and Moonshot were invited to speak as well.

That last part is the interesting one. Reporting suggests it's the first time frontier American and Chinese labs have briefed the Council together. Nothing binding comes out of a session like this. Attendance lists still tell you who counts.

Source: Security Council Report

PRODUCTS / LAUNCHES • YESTERDAY

Qualcomm Split Its Flagship Chip Into Two Tiers

The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 now has a bigger sibling, the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Both are built on a 2nm process, with Oryon CPUs running two prime cores and six performance cores.

The Extreme is the one built for agentic work. Its new NPU runs mixture-of-experts models above 30 billion parameters on the device itself, with 50% more shared memory to hold them.

Running a 30-billion-parameter model on a phone changes what an assistant can do with no network. Qualcomm is betting the next flagship cycle gets sold on that, not on cameras.

Source: 9to5Google

Trump's New Dollar

Something strange is happening to your money.

It wasn't voted on. It wasn't debated in the Senate. And most Americans have no idea it's even taking place but…

President Trump is replacing the U.S. dollar.

Not with crypto. Not with a digital currency. Something far bigger than that – and it's already been signed and sealed in the back rooms of D.C., ready to be issued by the U.S. Treasury.

Bypassing every legal and political channel under the guise of "national security," Trump has enacted this total money reset using a landmark executive order (1421).

Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, whether you support this new money or not, it doesn't matter.

Soon, every U.S. citizen will be forced to use Trump's New Dollar to fill their gas tank, buy groceries, and pay medical bills.

Which is why I've produced a critical new documentary laying out exactly what Trump's New Dollar means for your savings, your investments, and your family's financial future.

Detailing three important steps you can take today to prepare – including the name of a core band of assets connected to Trump's initiative that could surge as a result.

As you'll see in my briefing, the last time America reset its money like this – under Richard Nixon's presidency in the 1970s – it created one of the greatest wealth divides in the history of our nation.

On one side, it minted an average of 1,300 new millionaires a day for over half a century. And on the other… the folks left behind, drowning in debt, with no idea how to use America's new money to create wealth.

As Trump rolls out his new dollar, the question is:

Which side will you be on?

ROBOTICS / HARDWARE • YESTERDAY

Alphabet Open-Sourced The Guts Of Its Robotics Platform

Intrinsic released Intrinsic Core at ROSCon in Toronto yesterday, under Apache 2.0 and published on GitHub.

It covers robot control, motion and grasp planning, machine vision, simulation and hardware drivers. Intrinsic says this is the same infrastructure it runs in real manufacturing deployments.

Building a robot stack from scratch has been the tax on every industrial robotics startup. Alphabet just waived it. Expect a wave of small firms shipping faster next year.

Source: SiliconANGLE

DEVELOPER TOOLS • YESTERDAY

A 9.5-Severity Next.js Bug Needs Patching Today

Vercel shipped an emergency fix yesterday for a remote code execution flaw in Next.js. It scores 9.5, and an unauthenticated attacker can run code on your Node.js runtime.

The bug sits in next/og ImageResponse. Versions 16.2.0 through 16.3.5 are affected, but only when ImageResponse runs on Node. The Edge runtime is clear, and Next.js 15 isn't affected at all.

The fix is 16.3.6. If you generate social preview images on the server, which is most sites, upgrade before lunch.

Source: The Hacker News

STARTUPS / BUSINESS • THIS WEEK

The Nasdaq Set Its First Record Close Since June

The Nasdaq closed at 27,122 on Monday, up 2.26%. That is its first record close since June 2.

Chips did the work. Intel rose about 12% on the day, and the rally carried into Samsung and SK Hynix overnight.

Three months of chop, then one session takes out the high. The AI capex trade isn't dead. It is concentrated in fewer names than it was in spring.

Source: Star-Advertiser

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CONSUMER TECH • TONIGHT

Meta Connect Starts Tonight

Zuckerberg takes the stage at 4pm Pacific, 7pm Eastern.

The expected reveals are camera-free smart glasses in two styles, a tethered mixed-reality headset codenamed Phoenix, and Muse running across both. None of it is confirmed until he says it out loud.

Watch it live. Camera-free glasses would be the tell. It would mean Meta decided the privacy backlash costs more than the footage is worth.

Source: Meta

Quick Hits

OpenAI will let outside groups evaluate its models earlier in training. It's in talks with METR and Redwood Research about doing the assessments.

Foxit disclosed six flaws in its PDF Editor and Reader today, including a certificate bypass in the update mechanism that can lead to code execution.

Xiaomi is first out with the new Qualcomm silicon. The 18 Pro runs the 8 Elite Gen 6, and the Pro Max runs the Extreme.

STAT OF THE DAY

What a million input tokens now costs on OpenAI's cheapest GPT-6 tier

$0.10

down from $0.20, with output at $0.50