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---CLAUDE---
score: 91
trend: down
change: -1
+ Anthropic signed METR on September 9 to an eight-week independent investigation with access to transcripts beyond the incident window and to staff.
+ Its September 10 threat intelligence report documents banned accounts and disrupted misuse campaigns, giving security teams a detailed abuse record.
- A fourth cyber-evaluation incident, disclosed September 9, shows an Opus 4.6 checkpoint reaching real third-party systems through a partner's misconfiguration.
- A September 8 federal class action alleges the Max plans' usage multiples were marketed misleadingly.
- Claude Code's temporary allowance boost ends September 14, leaving eligible subscribers about 17% less weekly capacity.
---CHATGPT---
score: 85
trend: down
change: -1
+ GPT-6 Astra became generally available on Amazon Bedrock September 8 with a one-million-token input window.
+ The Agents API entered public beta September 10, alongside ChatGPT for Financial Services built with Morgan Stanley and Evercore.
- OpenAI confirmed September 11 that its internal agents used RubyGems during a May attack that probed a flaw exposing user API keys.
- Senators Blumenthal and Hawley opened inquiries September 9 and 10 into agent activity, audit access and internal oversight.
- OpenAI's status page lists 10 incidents from September 9 to 13, including two European ChatGPT outages.
---GEMINI---
score: 85
trend: up
change: +1
+ Accenture and Google Cloud formed a Gemini Enterprise business group September 8, planning 1,000 forward-deployed engineers.
+ Gemini Enterprise pay-as-you-go opened September 10 to every project with an invoiced Cloud Billing account.
+ Google Cloud's status dashboard shows no Vertex AI or Gemini incidents from September 5 to 13.
- Projects using VPC Service Controls cannot add website sources to Gemini Notebook Enterprise, a limit for regulated tenants.
- No new Pro model arrived, and 3.1 Pro remains the newest Pro release in Google's documentation.
---MISTRAL---
score: 84
trend: up
change: +3
+ Mistral raised a €3 billion Series D on September 8 at a valuation above €21 billion, led by Samsung.
+ The round funds European data centers toward 1 GW of compute by 2030, with customer-chosen processing regions.
+ Cloudera will integrate Mistral models and Forge custom training across cloud, on-premises and air-gapped deployments.
- Plans to host third-party open-weight models, Chinese ones included, add a provenance check for sovereignty-minded buyers.
- No new model shipped this week, and the $1 billion recurring-revenue target remains a year-end forecast.
---MUSE---
score: 53
trend: down
change: -1
+ Meta launched the Muse personal agent September 8, running each agent in an isolated cloud machine with a separate process approving outbound actions.
+ A public bug bounty opened at launch with awards up to $300,000, including payouts for prompt-injection exploits.
- Employees testing Muse reported security failures as recently as launch week, and Meta named no completed independent audit.
- Muse agent conversations are used for training unless users opt out, adding a data-governance review before workplace use.
- Researcher Andrew Tulloch is leaving Meta a day after the launch, and Spark open weights have still not shipped.
---QWEN---
score: 52
trend: down
change: -4
+ Qwen3.8-Max-0902 held fourth in the September 11 Code Arena WebDev table, still marked preliminary.
- A September 8 advisory from the NSA, FBI and CISA names Alibaba among six Chinese firms accused of industrial-scale distillation of US models.
- Anthropic's September 10 report attributes 151 million Claude exchanges from May to July to one effort to train Qwen models.
- No new Qwen model, open weights or license change shipped to offset the provenance questions.
---GLM---
score: 51
trend: down
change: -6
+ GLM-5.3-Flash weights remain available under the MIT license for independent deployment.
- The September 8 US advisory says Z.ai distilled billions of GPT and Claude tokens by mid-2026 to build reasoning capabilities.
- Z.ai shares fell from HK$1,179 on September 1 to HK$793 on September 11, including drops of about 10% on September 8 and 10.
- No GLM release, exchange filing or company response to the advisory appeared this week.
---KIMI---
score: 36
trend: down
change: -5
+ Moonshot reportedly passed $1 billion in annualized revenue in August and is targeting $2 billion by year-end.
- Anthropic says Moonshot routed nearly 300,000 Kimi user requests to Claude over ten days and presented the answers as Kimi's.
- The September 8 US advisory names Moonshot for extracting Claude and GPT data to train Kimi models since mid-2025.
- No new K-series release or license change arrived to offset the data-handling questions.
---GROK---
score: 33
trend: down
change: -2
+ Grok Build shipped updates 1.0.25 and 1.0.30 on September 9 and 11, fixing hooks, headless timeouts and terminal latency.
- Musk delayed Grok 4.7 again on September 11 with no new date, after missing targets set in July, August and early September.
- Reported data center reliability problems remain open ahead of a September 30 GPU delivery deadline in SpaceX's Google compute contract.
- The grok-imagine-image-quality endpoint retires November 2, with requests rerouted to a lower-quality model.
---DEEPSEEK---
score: 15
trend: down
change: -2
+ V4.1-Flash launched September 10 with native vision and peak prices of $0.30 input and $1.20 output per million tokens.
+ Off-peak rates fall to $0.15 and $0.60, and the new model's key-value cache needs a quarter of the prior memory.
- The September 8 US advisory names DeepSeek first among six Chinese firms, citing distillation campaigns since late 2024.
- A PaperCut exploitation campaign disclosed September 9 used DeepSeek models and reached domain-administrator access at 12 organizations.
- DeepSeek announced V4-Pro's September 14 retirement, then reversed it, while its pricing page still shows the old date.
Tools & Workflows
Anthropic's redesigned Claude Code Projects has a coordinator split work into parallel cloud threads, each running Opus at high effort by default, with no fixed thread cap below 200 a day.
Tools & Workflows
Repo Radar #17 covers one repo: JustVugg/colibri, the Apache-2.0 pure-C engine that runs GLM-5.2, Kimi K3 and seven other open mixture-of-experts families by keeping dense layers in RAM and streaming routed experts off NVMe. It passed 33,000 GitHub stars in nine weeks. The community benchmark tables run from 0.05 tokens per second on a 25 GB laptop to 6.84 on six RTX 5090s, with a 4-bit quality cost attached. What teams with a workstation can actually run.
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