AI updates, September 2026

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash pricing on OpenRouter has moved up on both sides. Input went from $0.14 to $0.15 per 1M tokens, a marginal change. Output went from $0.42 to $0.60 per 1M tokens, a rise of roughly 43%.

DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 input pricing on OpenRouter moved from $0.931074 to $0.919242 per 1M tokens. Output moved from $1.862148 to $1.838484 per 1M tokens. Both changes are a shade over one percent lower.

OpenAI has published a customer story on invideo building with GPT-6 Astra. invideo says the model plans edits with greater precision, improves colour correction and grading threefold, and produced 50 custom effects in a single day.

Harvey now uses GPT-6 Astra to generate legal documents. OpenAI says the model produces more structured, context-aware drafts, moving Harvey from assembling context to producing finished work lawyers can review rather than rebuild.

OpenAI has published the remarks its CEO Sam Altman gave to the United Nations Security Council. The remarks cover AI safety, human control and international cooperation. This is a policy communication, not a product or model change.

OpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak program to the Government of Ukraine. The stated purpose is supporting the cyber defence of civilian infrastructure. Access moves from a closed programme to including a national government partner.

OpenAI published a post marking two years of OpenAI Academy. The stated focus is bringing AI skills training to more communities. No product or model behaviour change is described.

Google Beam is expanding into five new countries, widening the set of markets where it is available. Google has also partnered with Industrious to extend the network of locations, alongside new partners and customers.

Google worked directly with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to custom-design Google Flow tools for their New York Fashion Week preparation. This moves Flow from a general-purpose tool to one shaped around a specific creative workflow through hands-on collaboration with practitioners.

Google is adding academic advisors, fellows and core internal researchers to its AI & Economy team. The change is to the team's composition, moving from an internal group to one supplemented by external academic expertise.

Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, an open platform for global statistics. Data that was previously spread across UN sources is now searchable and explorable in one place.