Top of the Hour — 9:00 AM · Mon Oct 26, 2026

Monday, October 26: Nvidia signals a $2,000-per-GPU software subscription for AI agents; Washington lawmakers from both parties tell AI CEOs to stop talking; Samsung pledges to halve its chip-material R&D cycle using AI; Anthropic ships Claude Haiku 5.5; OpenAI's models land on Google Cloud; and a new study finds Grok and GPT-6.1 Sol pick opposite parties 92–97% of the time. In this hour: Nvidia Wants $2,000 a Year, Per Chip, to Run Your AI Agents · Lawmakers From Both Parties Tell AI Chiefs to Stop Talking · Samsung Says AI Can Cut Chip-Material Research From Five Years to Two · Anthropic's Smallest AI Model Grows Up: Effort Controls, Million-Token Memory · OpenAI's Models Are Now Available Inside Google's Cloud — Alongside Google's Own · Forced to Pick a Party, Grok Went Republican 92% of the Time — GPT Went Democrat 97%.