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All newsOpenAI's GPT-5.6 Models Launch Publicly This Thursday
After weeks of restricted access, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna go public on Thursday — with benchmark wins over Claude Mythos 5 and notably lower prices.
NewsDeepSeek Is Designing Its Own AI Chip — and Taking Outside Money for the First Time
Reuters reports the Chinese AI lab is building an inference chip to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and Huawei, while raising $7 billion at a valuation above $50 billion.
NewsMicrosoft Is Quietly Swapping OpenAI and Anthropic Out of Copilot to Cut Costs
Microsoft's in-house MAI models are replacing OpenAI and Anthropic in Excel and Outlook — customers may get weaker AI for the same subscription price.
NewsRowboat: An Open-Source AI Coworker That Keeps Your Data on Your Machine
The trending open-source desktop app indexes your email, meetings, and notes into a local knowledge graph — and works with local models via Ollama or LM Studio.
NewsAmazon Is Quietly Closing the Original 'Human-Powered AI' Marketplace
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk on July 30, 2026 — the crowdsourcing platform that helped train a generation of AI, as generative AI now does that work instead.
BlogGPT-5.6, Explained Simply: Three Models, a Giant Memory, and One Catch
OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 isn't one model but three, all sharing an enormous memory. Here's what genuinely improves, why it's useful in everyday terms, and the one catch the launch slides quietly leave out.
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