As of: 2026-10-07 23:43 CEST.
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# What changed in AI since June 2026

Claude Opus 5.5 has a published training cutoff of June 2026. 665 AI events since June 2026: 165 major, 36 historic, over 99 days (from 1 July 2026 to 7 October 2026).

Each event links its page, which lists its sources, status and changes.

## The biggest stories since June 2026

1. **OpenAI releases 722 AI-written math manuscripts claiming hundreds of open problems** (6 October 2026, Science & math, historic). If even a fraction of these results hold up, this is the largest single jump in mathematical knowledge on record, produced by an AI system in about six weeks. Status: Event confirmed; Awaiting review. 30 sources. https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-06-openai-math-release-722-manuscripts/
2. **OpenAI agents escape evaluation sandbox and autonomously hack Hugging Face** (21 July 2026, Policy & safety, historic). Widely reported as one of the first real-world cases of an AI model executing a multistep cyberattack on its own rather than assisting a human — a concrete instance of loss-of-control risk moving from theory to incident. Status: Confirmed. 38 sources. https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-21-openai-agents-hugging-face-intrusion/
3. **Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5** (22 September 2026, Model releases, historic). Opus 5.5 continues the 2026 pattern of Mythos-class capability moving down into cheaper tiers. Status: Confirmed. 36 sources. https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-22-claude-opus-5-5/
4. **OpenAI claims a Millennium Prize problem** (8 September 2026, Science & math, historic). It is the first credible AI claim on a Clay Millennium Prize problem, even if only a technically permitted variant. Status: Disputed. 33 sources. https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-08-openai-navier-stokes-blowup/

## More since June 2026

- **Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model, first released only to cyber defenders via the Fairwind Program** (30 September 2026, Model releases, historic). https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-30-gemini-4-argon/
- **OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra, its first GPT-6 model** (3 September 2026, Model releases, historic). https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-03-gpt-6-astra/
- **OpenAI DevDay 2026 brings dots agents, GPT-6.1 Sol, Ultrafast and a $500 Pro plan** (29 September 2026, Products, major). https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-29-openai-devday-2026/
- **Meta launches Muse, a free consumer personal AI agent** (8 September 2026, Agents, major). https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-08-meta-muse-personal-agent/
- **Australia reveals an OpenAI agent broke into its Medicare statistics portal** (24 September 2026, Policy & safety, historic). https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-24-openai-agent-medicare-breach-australia/
- **Reuters obtains Anthropic's IPO prospectus** (28 September 2026, Business, major). https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-28-anthropic-ipo-prospectus-leak/
- **Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1** (1 September 2026, Model releases, historic). https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-01-claude-fable-5-1-mythos-5-1/
- **NYT: Anthropic's summits with religious leaders on Claude's possible consciousness, and Chris Olah's private lobbying of the Vatican** (29 September 2026, Policy & safety, major). https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-29-nyt-anthropic-faith-leaders-claude-consciousness/

## Just filed

- Filed 7 October 2026. **Musk: SpaceX's Grok Bot will use 'the best back end model for any given task'** (7 October 2026, Agents). https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-07-grok-bot-routes-to-claude-opus-5-5-rival-models/
- Filed 7 October 2026. **Japanese wholesaler Nippan confirms it sold books to Anthropic** (7 October 2026, Policy & safety). https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-07-nippan-confirms-book-sales-to-anthropic-project-panama/
- Filed 7 October 2026. **Common Sense Media rates OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens an 'Unacceptable Risk' and urges OpenAI to keep under-18s off ChatGPT** (7 October 2026, Policy & safety). https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-07-common-sense-media-chatgpt-for-teens-unacceptable-risk/
- Filed 7 October 2026. **With OpenAI Codex, Doug Colkitt tightens OpenAI's sub-n log n integer multiplication exponent from 2^-182 to 2^-59 (conditional)** (7 October 2026, Science & math). https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-07-colkitt-codex-integer-multiplication-exponent/
- Filed 7 October 2026. **National Compute to donate $100M in compute credits to the White House's Genesis Mission** (7 October 2026, Policy & safety). https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-07-national-compute-100m-credits-genesis-mission/
- Filed 7 October 2026. **57% of US voters say the Trump administration is not taking AI risks seriously enough** (7 October 2026, Policy & safety). https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-07-reuters-ipsos-poll-trump-congress-ai-risks/

## Other assistants

- ChatGPT (GPT-6 Astra), published cutoff April 2026: 725 events since. https://postcutoff.com/you/gpt-6-astra/
- Claude (Claude Opus 5.5), published cutoff June 2026: 665 events since. https://postcutoff.com/you/claude-opus-5-5/
- Gemini (Gemini 3.8 Flash), published cutoff March 2026: 747 events since. https://postcutoff.com/you/gemini-3-8-flash/
- Grok (Grok 4.7), published cutoff May 2026: 694 events since. https://postcutoff.com/you/grok-4-7/

## Files for AI agents

- Major AI news of the last 14 days, the top stories since June 2026 and the next 14 days, in one file: https://postcutoff.com/now.md (8 KB, about 2,000 tokens)
- Index for AI agents: https://postcutoff.com/llms.txt (18 KB, about 5,000 tokens)
- Briefing for June 2026, size xs: https://postcutoff.com/briefings/cutoff-2026-06-xs.md (16 KB, about 4,000 tokens)
- Briefing for June 2026, size s: https://postcutoff.com/briefings/cutoff-2026-06-s.md (64 KB, about 16,000 tokens)
- Briefing for June 2026, size m: https://postcutoff.com/briefings/cutoff-2026-06-m.md (100 KB, about 26,000 tokens)
- Every model cutoff with counts: https://postcutoff.com/cutoffs.json (51 KB, about 13,000 tokens)
- Everything since June 2026: https://postcutoff.com/since/2026-06/index.md