[AINews] not much happened today

If you’re even seeing this, you should probably just go enjoy your weekend. AI News for 10/1/2026-10/2/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, 544 Twitters and no further Discords. AINews’ website lets you search all past issues. As a reminder, AINews is now a section of Latent Space. You can opt in/out of email frequencies! AI News for 10/1/2026-10/2/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, 544 Twitters and no further Discords. AINews’ website lets you search all past issues. As a reminder, AINews is now a section of Latent Space. You can opt in/out of email frequencies! GPT-6.1 Sol and Sonnet 5.5 Reshape the Cost–Performance Frontier GPT-6.1 Sol launch: OpenAI priced Sol at $2/$10 per million input/output tokens, compared with $10/$50 for Astra (pricing summary).Claimed results: It reportedly beats GPT-6 Sol by 6.4 points on DeepSWE v1.1 and Opus 5.5 by 2.2 points on AutomationBench (summary).Positioning: OpenAI staff describe it as “good, cheap AND fast” (@reach_vb).Codex usage: A global Codex usage reset was set for Oct 2 at 10AM PT (@reach_vb).Tool use: Sol reportedly “REALLY loves codemode,” consistent with GPT models being trained on it (@badlogicgames, codemode note). GPT-6.1 Sol launch: OpenAI priced Sol at $2/$10 per million input/output tokens, compared with $10/$50 for…