Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, both on TSMC's 2nm process, with two 5GHz prime cores and six 4GHz performance cores (Axel Metz/TechRadar)

Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, built on TSMC’s 2 nm process with two 5 GHz prime cores and six 4 GHz performance cores. Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, matching Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks while costing 40% less to run, and increased five-hour usage limits for Pro, Max, and Team plans. OpenAI introduced GPT-6 Sol and Luna, stating Sol makes half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 and Luna matches Sol’s performance at about 1% of the cost.