23 September 2026

Audi A6 e-tron drives 1,338 km on a single charge - a Guinness record

European rally champion Miko Marczyk drove an Audi A6 Sportback e-tron 1,338 km (831 miles) on a single charge, setting a Guinness record for series-production electric cars. He set off from Zakopane on September 11 and for more than 45 hours drove on ordinary roads through Kraków, Warsaw and Toruń to the Hel Peninsula. On the way back, the car stopped between Toruń and Ciechocinek. Average consumption was 7.09 kWh per 100 km. The previous record, set with a Lucid Air, was 1,205 km.

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Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 - the company's fastest model, about 75 percent cheaper than its predecessor on average

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, a small model in the Claude 5.5 family for high-volume, low-cost tasks: summaries, classification, database queries and working as a coding subagent. According to the company, it is its fastest model ever, and using it costs about 75 percent less than Haiku 4.5 on average: $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts up to 100,000 tokens. It is the first Haiku with adjustable reasoning effort. Anthropic also halved the price of cache reads for Sonnet 5.5 and is introducing a monthly API credit: $100 for Max 5x subscribers, $200 for Max 20x and up to $500 for Team.

Anthropic ↗ The Verge ↗ 9to5Mac ↗

Trump invited Anthropic's CEO to a private dinner at the White House

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will have a private dinner with Donald Trump at the White House on Sunday evening, Axios reports, and CNBC confirms it as well. It will be their first one-on-one meeting: Trump invited Amodei personally because the Anthropic CEO could not attend Thursday's state dinner in honor of Xi Jinping, which was attended by Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg, among others. On Tuesday, Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson will meet with the heads of the biggest AI companies at the White House.

Axios ↗ CNBC ↗

Stack Overflow: six in ten developers try to avoid AI, even though 65 percent use coding assistants

That is the finding of a Stack Overflow survey of 30,000 developers from 169 countries, whose results CNN saw ahead of publication scheduled for Tuesday, October 6. 74 percent of respondents find AI useful for writing code and 72 percent for finding bugs, but only 34.4 percent for other tasks, and 6.6 percent would trust it with important decisions. Nearly a third are unhappy at work (28.4 percent a year earlier), while 22.3 percent are "happy." Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar points to burnout and uncertainty about how much of the work will be automated.

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