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GPT-6 Sol & Luna Launch; Claude Opus 5.5 Cuts Costs 40%
OpenAI lowers AI agent pricing, Meta’s Muse adds PayPal checkout amid human-caller scrutiny, and 12 companies unite on agent security.
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September 22, 2026
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OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Sol and Luna for coding, computer use and professional workflows, available through the API, ChatGPT Work and Codex. Sol costs $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens; Luna costs $0.10 and $0.50. OpenAI reports Sol scored 56.4% on Agents’ Last Exam, exceeding Opus 5’s best evaluated score at 60% lower cost per task.
The strategic shift: Lower operating costs make longer agent sessions and higher-volume automation more affordable.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 with improvements in coding, professional work and agent safety. The company reports 40% lower costs on typical workloads and over 30% faster output than Opus 5. API pricing is $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, with cheaper cache reads. Anthropic also reports stronger resistance to prompt injection and fewer actions outside assigned boundaries.
The strategic shift: Agent models are competing on cost per completed task alongside capability and control.
Reuters reports that Meta tested contractors handling some calls requested through Muse, including everyday errands and service inquiries. Internal posts cited potential 95%–98% success rates with human callers, alongside employee concerns about privacy and inadequate disclosure. A Meta executive said the contractor-calling feature had been rolled back.
The strategic shift: Reliable task completion can still depend on human assistance, making disclosure and data handling central to consumer-agent trust.
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PayPal announced a partnership enabling customers to shop and check out through Muse across its merchant network worldwide. The agreement expands Muse’s payment options beyond the Stripe-powered Link functionality described at launch. PayPal’s announcement did not provide transaction volumes or adoption figures.
The strategic shift: Payment partnerships are becoming a practical route for shopping agents to reach merchants and complete purchases.
Okta, AWS, Google Cloud, CrowdStrike, Salesforce, ServiceNow and six other companies formed the Blueprint Alliance. Its shared principles cover agent identity, task-specific permissions, traceable delegation, continuous monitoring and rapid containment. The coalition aims to help security systems coordinate across vendors.
The strategic shift: Agents cross application boundaries, creating demand for security controls that work across the entire workflow.
Okta made Agent SSO, Agent-to-Agent Connections and Resource Access Certifications generally available, supporting identity-based access and auditable handoffs. It also announced Agent Gateway for runtime policy enforcement and endpoint discovery for unmanaged agents. A gateway-level kill switch that revokes active tokens and terminates sessions is planned for a later rollout.
The strategic shift: Enterprise identity management is expanding from authenticating agents to controlling their actions throughout execution.
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