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Good day, here's your AI digest for October 20, 2026.
Today brings faster language models, updates to coding and creative tools, and a closer look at what happens when agents operate with real access.
Inception has launched Mercury 3, a diffusion language model that drafts and refines multiple parts of an answer together. The company reports more than one thousand tokens per second and quality competitive with GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5. Those comparisons come from Inception’s own testing. API pricing is twenty cents per million input tokens and seventy cents per million output…
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