The Stack

The Stack — September 24, 2026

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Daily IT Briefing

AI & Machine Learning

The frontier race is now a price-performance race. Anthropic and OpenAI have each shipped new frontier models with nearly identical pitches — modest capability gains paired with substantially lower cost. That's a shift in competitive posture: the labs are increasingly asking buyers to comparison-shop on cost-per-token rather than chasing raw benchmark…