OpenAI · cutoff 2026-02-16
What GPT-5.6 Sol doesn't know
Its knowledge stops at February 2026, the cutoff listed for it. It is now October 30, 2026: 8 months later. This is what happened in between.
- 170 world events
- 114 new AI models
- 76 new software versions
The world
A few of the 170 events from each month, as Wikipedia's editors recorded them. All of them are on Wikipedia's 2026 page.
October 2026
- Oct 20PHP2Shell: Information about two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language used by most of the World Wide Web, is leaked online, prompting an emergency security announcement. Websites around the world are temporarily taken offline as a precaution, while governments issue cybersecurity warnings and developers release patches.
- Oct 252026 Brazilian general election: Incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeats senator Flávio Bolsonaro in the second round in an upset victory, becoming the first president in Brazilian history to be re-elected to a fourth term and the first to win a second round after losing a first round. Right-leaning parties win majorities in the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate.
September 2026
- Sep 9A fire on the ferry MV June Aster kills at least 76 people and 13 others go missing off Coron, Palawan, Philippines.
- Sep 18Following months of threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to acquire or annex Greenland, an agreement is announced by Denmark, Greenland and the United States to strengthen security in the Arctic and North Atlantic, expanding the permanent U.S. military presence in Greenland while recognizing Danish sovereignty and Greenlandic self-determination. The agreement is formally signed on September 22.
August 2026
- Aug 262026 Nepal–Tibet floods: At least 1,403 people are killed and 6,650 are reported missing after a landslide and glacial collapse trigger flash floods and debris flows at the border between Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.
- Aug 30NASA launches the flagship Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Designed to study dark energy, dark matter and exoplanets, the observatory has a field of view at least 100 times larger than the Hubble Space Telescope's.
July 2026
- Jul 192026 FIFA World Cup final: Spain beat defending champions Argentina 1–0 during extra time to win a second FIFA World Cup title after 16 years. Spanish forward Ferran Torres scores the only goal in the 106th minute.
- Jul 302026 Ceuta migrant crisis: Approximately 80,000 people illegally enter Ceuta, Spain with smaller numbers attempting to cross into Melilla, having swam from Morocco. This follows a Supreme Court of Spain decision prohibiting the hot return of migrants arriving by sea. At least 111 people are killed.
June 2026
- Jun 14A mid-air collision between two helicopters in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, kills six people, including American singer-songwriter Oliver Tree, Argentine YouTuber Gaspi, Argentine director and screenwriter Lucas A. Vignale and Brazilian music producer Lucas Frota.
- Jun 15The United States and Iran announce and sign the Islamabad Memorandum, a 14-point agreement to end the 2026 Iran war, reopen the Strait of Hormuz, lift the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports, and begin a 60-day negotiation period on Iran's nuclear programme; Israel says it will not withdraw from territory it has seized in southern Lebanon.
May 2026
- May 4An explosion at a fireworks factory in Liuyang, Hunan, China kills 37 people and injures 51 others.
- May 31Flamingo Revolution: Following small protests in the village of Zvërnec, major protests erupt in Albania over a proposed luxury development involving Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his firm Affinity Partners, as well as broader discontent with Prime Minister Edi Rama's government.
April 2026
- Apr 1NASA launches the Artemis II lunar flyby mission, marking the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972.
- Apr 252026 Mali offensives: The Azawad Liberation Front and JNIM launch several large-scale attacks, targeting major cities across Mali, capturing Kidal and parts of Gao, Mopti, and Sevare.
March 2026
- Mar 22026 Lebanon war: Hezbollah begins launching strikes against Israel in retaliation for the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
- Mar 82026 Iranian supreme leader election: Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of Ali Khamenei, is selected as the third Supreme Leader of Iran.
February 2026
- Feb 222026 Jalisco operation: A military operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, Mexico, kills 62 people including Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader El Mencho.
- Feb 282026 Iran war: Israel and the United States launch attacks on Iran, killing many high-profile officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Iran launches retaliatory strikes against Israel, as well as against US military bases in the Persian Gulf, and closes the Strait of Hormuz by attacking vessels that try to pass.
In the news this week
- British actor Patrick Stewart dies at the age of 86.
- In baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers defeat the Tampa Bay Rays to win the World Series.
- At least 69 people are killed in a collision between two high-speed trains in Toledo province, Spain.
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is re-elected President of Brazil.
- In the Serbian parliamentary election, the Student List wins a majority of seats, defeating former president Aleksandar Vučić and his Serbian Progressive Party.
AI models released since
114 models from the major labs, newest first. The latest 15:
| GPT-6.1 Terra Pro | OpenAI | 2026-10-26 |
| GPT-6.1 Terra | OpenAI | 2026-10-26 |
| Kimi K3.1 Pro | Moonshot AI | 2026-10-23 |
| MiniMax M3.1 Flash | MiniMax | 2026-10-19 |
| DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | DeepSeek | 2026-10-17 |
| Nemotron 3.5 Super VL | NVIDIA | 2026-10-15 |
| Gemini 4 Argon | 2026-10-13 | |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | Anthropic | 2026-10-07 |
| Nano Banana 2.1 | 2026-10-06 | |
| Mistral Large 4 | Mistral | 2026-10-06 |
| GPT-6.1 Sol Pro | OpenAI | 2026-09-29 |
| GPT-6.1 Sol | OpenAI | 2026-09-29 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Anthropic | 2026-09-28 |
| GLM 5.3 Prime | Zhipu (Z.ai) | 2026-09-23 |
| Qwen3.8 Max Prime | Qwen (Alibaba) | 2026-09-23 |
Software it thinks is current
New release lines since then, for the languages, frameworks, databases and systems an agent is most likely to touch.
World: Wikipedia year articles (CC BY-SA 4.0). This week: Wikipedia "In the news". Models: OpenRouter's public list. Software: endoflife.date (MIT). Fetched and cached for a few hours at 2026-10-30 22:02 UTC. No model wrote any of it.