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AI News — Oct 18, 2026 🔘 Anthropic cuts Claude Opus 5.5 pricing — 20% off tokens, 60% off cache reads; ~40% cheaper to run than prior gen 🔘 DeepSeek V4.1-Flash-1017 — beats Claude Opus 5 on DeepSWE coding bench (77.0) 🔘 OpenAI publishes 722 math manuscripts — covering 372 families, including many top-500 open problems 🔘 Replit dumps Anthropic for OpenAI — default model switch on its agent Price war is the headline. Anthropic cutting costs, Replit ditching them for OpenAI on the same day — the agentic coding market is now a price war, not a capability war. 💰 #AI #Anthropic #AISafety #AGI #ArtificialIntelligence #CNN #TechNews
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