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Friday 4 September 2026

AI news for 4 Sep 2026

10 items from 3 labs. 1 post, 5 releases, 1 changelog entry, 1 incident and 2 deprecations. OpenAI was busiest with 5.

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OpenAI 5

OpenAIrelease gpt-6codex-releases

codex 0.153.4

Bug Fixes Fixed Astra’s visibility in the bundled model picker and made it the bundled default when no model is explicitly configured. ( #42874 ) Updated Astra’s guidance to use asynchronous questions only when the tool is available in the session. ( #42878 ) Changelog Full Changelog: rust-v0.153.3...rust-v0.153.4 #42874 [0.153 hotfix] Show Astra in bundled model picker @rhan-oai #42878 [0.153 hotfix] Qualify Astra async-question guidance by tool availability @rhan-oai

OpenAIrelease gpt-6codex-releases

codex 0.153.3

New Features Added GPT-6-Astra to the Amazon Bedrock model picker for Mantle and Runtime global/US routes. ( #42805 ) Bug Fixes Corrected GPT-6-Astra’s guidance for asynchronous clarification questions to use the supported tool and recognize that it accepts text only. ( #42809 ) Changelog Full Changelog: rust-v0.153.2...rust-v0.153.3 #42805 [0.153 hotfix] Add GPT-6-Astra to Amazon Bedrock catalogs @celia-oai #42809 [0.153 hotfix] Update Astra async-question guidance @rhan-oai

OpenAIdeprecation gpt-5 o3openai-deprecations

OpenAI API deprecations: page now tracked

Now tracking this page; changes will appear here as they happen. Latest announcements: 2026-08-26: Transcription models; 2026-07-20: Legacy audio, realtime, and transcription models; 2026-06-11: GPT-5 and o3 model deprecations; 2026-06-03: Reusable prompts; 2026-06-03: Evals platform; 2026-06-03: Agent Builder

Anthropic 4

Anthropicreleaseanthropic-sdk-python-releases

anthropic-sdk-python v1.4.0

1.4.0 (2026-09-04) Full Changelog: v1.3.0...v1.4.0 Features api: add Claude Tag category and user breakdowns to usage reports ( 9fce1e4 ) api: add named types for organization compliance settings state ( 1de1957 ) api: add support for sending a workspace ID on more endpoints ( d1d2c01 ) Bug Fixes client: raise a clear error when an httpx object is passed instead of an httpx2 one ( 9447099 ) repair custom-code merge in messages resources ( #580 ) ( 85454ca ) Chores examples: refresh platform model IDs ( #499 ) ( 182abb5 ) internal: bundle the mock server spec and update dev tooling ( f9b0cf2…

Anthropicchangelogclaude-code-changelog

claude-code 2.1.261

Added an "Organization policy" line to /status and claude doctor that says why your organization's policy could not be loaded, such as a proxy not passing the endpoint through Added bashOutputMaxChars and taskOutputMaxChars settings to raise how much command and background-task output Claude receives inline before it is saved to a file, up to 128K characters Added --append-subagent-system-prompt-file to read the subagent system prompt from a file, for prompts too large to pass on the command line Added /skill-doctor to show which loaded skills go unused and what they cost in context, so you…

Anthropicreleaseclaude-code-releases

claude-code v2.1.261

What's changed Added an "Organization policy" line to /status and claude doctor that says why your organization's policy could not be loaded, such as a proxy not passing the endpoint through Added bashOutputMaxChars and taskOutputMaxChars settings to raise how much command and background-task output Claude receives inline before it is saved to a file, up to 128K characters Added --append-subagent-system-prompt-file to read the subagent system prompt from a file, for prompts too large to pass on the command line Added /skill-doctor to show which loaded skills go unused and what they cost in…

Anthropicdeprecation claude-opus-4-1anthropic-deprecations

Anthropic model deprecations: page now tracked

Now tracking this page; changes will appear here as they happen. Latest announcements: 2026-06-05: Claude Opus 4.1 model; 2026-04-14: Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Opus 4 models; 2026-02-19: Claude Haiku 3 model; 2025-12-19: Claude Haiku 3.5 model; 2025-10-28: Claude Sonnet 3.7 model; 2025-08-13: Claude Sonnet 3.5 models

xAI 1

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