Every day, 48 hours of AI and agent news, checked against primary sourceshttps://ai.melgene.com/en/en-UShttps://ai.melgene.com/en/2026-10-09/https://ai.melgene.com/en/2026-10-09/Anthropic ships Claude Haiku 5.5, OpenAI rolls out GPT‑6 with Intelligent UI, Google previews a Gemini work agent, and GPT‑6.1 Sol gets an Ultrafast mode.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:30:00 GMT<p>Two major launches landed in this 48-hour window. Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, a small and much cheaper model, and OpenAI made GPT‑6 with Intelligent UI generally available in ChatGPT.</p><p>On the agent front, Google previewed a Gemini work agent that gets its own business account. For developers, the most practical update is OpenAI's Ultrafast mode for GPT‑6.1 Sol.</p><ul><li><strong>Claude Haiku 5.5: a small model at a much lower price</strong> (Anthropic, GA)</li><li><strong>GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI roll out across ChatGPT</strong> (OpenAI, GA)</li><li><strong>Gemini's unified work agent: an AI coworker with its own email account</strong> (Google Cloud, Preview)</li><li><strong>GPT‑6.1 Sol Ultrafast mode: high-speed inference in the API and Codex</strong> (OpenAI, GA)</li></ul>ModelsAgentsDev tools