Joy William

**February 8, 2026** — History will remember **February 5, 2026**, as the day the "AI Cold War" finally turned into a direct, high-stakes duel. In a sequence of events that felt more like a choreographed thriller than a corporate product launch, **OpenAI** and **Anthropic** released their newest flagship models—**GPT-5.3-Codex** and **Claude Opus 4.6**—within a mere 10 minutes of each other.

The simultaneous drop has sent shockwaves through Silicon Valley, causing software stocks to fluctuate a

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