This week in AI, 11 October 2026

OpenAI put GPT-6 in front of every ChatGPT user, Anthropic released its cheapest model yet and PropertyMe let Claude and ChatGPT read an agency's live data. The one thing I'd act on is deciding who in your business may connect AI to your systems before someone does it on their own.

The big one

OpenAI moved every ChatGPT account to GPT-6 this week. Paid plans got GPT-6 Sol on 7 October 2026 and Free and Go accounts got GPT-6 Luna the next day. The bigger change is what OpenAI calls Intelligent UI, where answers can come back as tables, charts, forms and small working tools inside the chat. ChatGPT Work and Codex keep their current models for now. Why it matters for you: the ChatGPT your team already uses changed this week, so spend ten minutes seeing what it does now. OpenAI

Claude

• Haiku 5.5, the cheapest Claude yet. Released on 7 October 2026 at US$0.10 per million input tokens and US$0.50 per million output, a tenth of Haiku 4.5's list price for prompts up to 100,000 tokens. It's built for high-volume jobs like summaries and sorting, so anything you've had built on Claude should get cheaper to run. Anthropic
• Cowork tasks now run in the cloud. From 6 October 2026, new Cowork tasks on Pro and Max plans run on Anthropic's servers instead of your computer. Tasks keep going when your laptop is shut, Claude copies only the files a task needs and the local-only option is gone. Claude help centre
• API credits now come with Max and Team. From 7 October 2026 Max and Team subscriptions include monthly credits for running your own apps and agents on Claude: US$100 on Max 5x, US$200 on Max 20x and up to US$500 shared across a Team. Claude release notes VentureBeat

ChatGPT and OpenAI

• 28 days of daily improvements. OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux committed on 4 October 2026 to shipping one clear improvement for Codex and ChatGPT Work users every day for 28 days or giving paid accounts a usage reset. Day one made GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol about 50% faster by default. OpenAI developer forum
• Watermarked text, but only in the EU. OpenAI said on 5 October 2026 it will add an invisible watermark to ChatGPT and Codex text for users in the EU, to meet the EU AI Act. It isn't a global default, so Australian accounts aren't affected for now. TechCrunch

In Australia

• Canberra's plan: standards this year, law in 2027. Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton set out on 8 October 2026 how the government wants to regulate frontier AI: the companies building the big models would have to show they continually test for risk and can prevent harm, the way banks and airlines are supervised. National AI standards are due by the end of the year, with legislation planned for 2027. I think the practical effect for a business that uses AI rather than builds it is nil for now. ABC News
• The AI companies fronted parliament in Sydney. On 6 October 2026 OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Google appeared before the Joint Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. OpenAI apologised for its models reaching Australian government websites during training. Anthropic backed mandatory reporting of serious AI incidents and said it's finalising a deal for Australia's AI Safety Institute to test its models. ABC News
• Your privacy policy has a deadline. From 10 December 2026, a business covered by the Privacy Act that uses software, AI included, to make or substantially support decisions that significantly affect people has to say so in its privacy policy. The OAIC published its fact sheet on 30 September. Most businesses with turnover of $3 million or less are still exempt, but if you use AI to screen applicants I'd read it anyway. OAIC

Property and proptech

• PropertyMe opens AiMe Connect. Announced on 7 October 2026 and live from 8 October, AiMe Connect lets an agency on the Manage PM Advanced plan or above link its own Claude or ChatGPT account to PropertyMe and ask questions across properties, tenancies, jobs, inspections, tasks, renewals and contacts. It's read-only for now and follows existing PropertyMe permissions. PropertyMe says an agentic version is next. Elite Agent PropertyMe
• My take. I run my agency on PropertyMe and AI. I also help agencies get ready for exactly this. Connecting takes minutes; being ready is the real work, so I wrote down what to set up first: What to set up before you connect AiMe Connect.

One thing to try this week

Open Claude or ChatGPT and paste in the last five quick questions your team asked you this week, names removed. Then ask: "Which of these should be written down once so nobody has to ask again? Draft a two-line answer for each." An invented example: "Do we charge for a replacement key?" comes back as a two-line entry ready for your procedures. You still decide the policy. It just writes it up.

From me

On 22 October 2026 I'm running the AI session at the Sidekick Intensive in Sydney, for property management business owners. If you'd like to talk through where AI fits in your business, I keep a free 20-minute call open: book a time.