Cognition released SWE-2, a post-trained coding model built from Moonshot AI’s 2.8T-parameter Kimi K3 and trained with reinforcement learning. It scored 50.0% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main, within 1 point of Fable 5.1, while claiming 64% lower cost. The update adds selectable reasoning-effort levels and changes deployment by keeping the model closed (no open weights or standalone API), running only inside Devin (with Devin Web and Fusion rolling out).
Apple announced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max and opened preorders for the two upgraded phones with an A20 Pro processor and camera improvements. The iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 for the 256GB model, and the phones arrive on Friday, September 18, 2026. Preorders now let buyers choose the exact color and storage configuration before launch.
DeepSeek released the open-weight model DeepSeek v4.1-Flash with a causal encoder-decoder architecture and added vision inputs. It charges $0.30 per 1M input tokens and $1.20 per 1M output tokens (MIT license, 1M-token context), with active parameters listed as 8B for prefill and 16B for decode. The launch shifts attention toward inference efficiency—especially KV/cache cost reduction—along with faster, lower-RAM local deployment enabled by SSD offloading and day-0 support in tools like Ollama and Baseten.
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