Five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it. All stories from 22 September 2026
OpenAI halves its API prices with GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Half the price of last month's models, and OpenAI says it is permanent.
European AI spending set to reach nearly $470 billion by 2030
Help Net Security· 22 SepIDC forecasts that European organisations will spend nearly $470 billion on AI in 2030, growing 35% a year from 2025. Agentic AI is the main driver, as companies move from single copilots to several agents working together. Software takes 54.9% of spending in 2026. IDC says AI investment is the priority firms protect first when cutting elsewhere.
- If you sell to banks, insurers or healthcare providers, expect questions about how you use AI. IDC expects AI Act deadlines to weigh most on those sectors.
- Budget for AI as an ongoing running cost, the way larger firms now do, not as a one-off experiment.
Source: Help Net Security. This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. The picture is our own graphic. How we source and credit
These are short summaries of other people's reporting, with our own commentary. Each story names its source and links to the original. How we source and credit