Artificial intelligence
AI is my co-pilot to design, build and ship faster. Here I follow what is released, what it changes for our work, and what is being debated, with a link to every source.
Updated on 28 Oct 2026
The Chinese lab's update improves reasoning, coding and agent tasks while producing shorter, cheaper outputs. The weights are on Hugging Face under the MIT licence, so developers can run the model on their own servers.
After a first phase reserved for vetted cyber defenders, Google opened its new frontier model Gemini 4 Argon on the Gemini API and Google Cloud. It is not available on the API free tier.
Built by Meta Superintelligence Labs, Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full focus on agents and on "active memory", the ability to retain and use information provided by the user. Muse Wonder is offered through the Meta Model API at $4 per million input tokens.
The French lab trained this multimodal model on its own compute (about 4,000 Nvidia GPUs) as part of Europe's push for sovereign AI. Mistral plans to publish the weights after safety testing.
Claude Opus 5.5 launched on 22 September, followed by Sonnet 5.5 on 28 September and Haiku 5.5 on 7 October. At launch, Opus 5.5 topped the Artificial Analysis and Vals AI overall indices, while Sonnet 5.5 kept the same price as its predecessor.
OpenAI released Sol, aimed at complex tasks such as coding, and Luna, aimed at high-volume tasks such as summarising documents, at half the API price of the previous generation. Luna is also available to Free and Go users of ChatGPT.
OpenAI presented Astra as its best model for software engineering and computer use, first available to its Daybreak cybersecurity programme before rolling out to paid ChatGPT plans and the API. Researchers raised concerns that its reasoning technique could make chain-of-thought monitoring harder.
The new AI Infrastructure and Readiness Initiative would give governments pay-as-you-go access to shared GPUs instead of each building its own data centre. The World Bank notes that sub-Saharan Africa has 18% of the world's population but only 0.6% of global data-centre capacity.
Launched at Hub Ivoire Tech in Abidjan, YIRI combines a social network and an online marketplace where users can post and sell in their own languages, starting with six Ivorian languages including Baoulé and Dioula. Its founders aim to cover 80% of West Africa within three years.
Speaker Patrick Achi opened a session on using AI for lawmaking and oversight, insisting that elected officials keep the final decision. Minister Djibril Ouattara presented the 2026-2028 digital roadmap (440 projects, over 2,000 public officials to be trained by end-2027).
Quotes that took one to three days now take two to three minutes, and agents handling US customs documents cut staff time by 23%. Ocean booking agents are rolling out from China to Asia in late 2026 and globally in early 2027.
Flexport's MCP server lets assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot search rates, book freight at negotiated prices and track shipments in natural language. Its Atlas platform added multimodal routing, AI disruption monitoring and per-container emissions estimates.
At its first national AI forum, Djibouti showcased DPCS Foresight, which predicts when customers will collect containers to cut re-handling, dwell time and congestion, and an AI camera system that detects road defects along transport corridors.
Productivity gains can create new jobs, and historically the unemployment effect of a productivity boost fades within about two years; only a minority of firms have fully adopted AI so far.
Goldman Sachs estimates that up to 9% of workers in developed economies could be displaced during the transition, with layoffs likely concentrated in the next recession.
The Digital Omnibus delayed high-risk rules (to December 2027 for areas like hiring, credit and education) because technical standards and national authorities were not ready, giving companies time to comply properly.
Critics see the delays and softer wording, such as on AI literacy, as weakening protections for citizens while AI systems are already being deployed.
Investments such as AWS's $1.5 billion and Microsoft's commitments bring AI infrastructure, cloud capacity and jobs to Africa, which currently has very little computing power.
In South Africa, civil rights groups are challenging proposed Cape Town data centres that they say would use over 4.4 billion litres of water a year and compete with residents for scarce electricity.
AI developers argue that training on existing works is fair use and that legal summaries such as headnotes should not be protected by copyright.
In September 2026 a US appeals court upheld that ROSS Intelligence infringed Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes when training a competing legal tool, ruling the use was not fair use, though it did not decide the question for generative AI.
My series L'IA et Nous is in preparation. Meanwhile, my reflections are on the blog.
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