Six months of AI in 2026, and a whole lot of noise. This week, two major players also hit the brakes and changed their tune. (opens in new tab)

This week, two major players also hit the brakes and changed their tune. Six months of AI in 2026, and honestly, things went off in every direction. Almost every week, a new model promising to "change everything": GPT-5.4 and 5.5, Claude Opus 4.6 through 4.8, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Kimi, DeepSeek V4, MiniMax M3, Gemma 4. But under the marketing, the real shift is somewhere else: we moved from the chatbot that answers to the agent that actually does things. And it comes with a bill. GitHub Copilot ...