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OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6
OpenAI has unveiled GPT-5.6, a new family of AI models comprising three variants: Sol (its flagship “workhorse”), Terra (an intermediate option) and Luna (a budget-friendly tier). The launch intensifies competition in an increasingly crowded market, with the models pitched at enterprise work, coding and scientific research, and marketed heavily against rival Anthropic. OpenAI also introduced…
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Instagram’s AI image generator alarms privacy experts
Meta has drawn criticism from privacy advocates over its new AI image generator, Muse Image, which by default can create pictures drawing on the faces of Instagram users with public profiles. Released on Tuesday, the tool lets people tag public Instagram accounts and generate images pulling from the faces featured in those posts, without notifying…
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An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100 million fundraise
Lyzr, a three-year-old enterprise AI-agent startup based in Jersey City, New Jersey, has raised a $100 million Series B at a valuation of roughly $500 million — and, according to Bloomberg, it let its own AI agent run the fundraise. The system, named SivaClaw, reportedly fielded questions from more than 130 investors, drafted investment memos…
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OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
OpenAI is closing down Atlas, the AI-powered web browser it launched in October with ChatGPT at its heart, but it is not abandoning the wider goal of using AI to help people browse the web. Rather than maintaining a standalone browser, the company is redistributing the agentic browsing features it trialled in Atlas across ChatGPT’s…
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Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic
Elon Musk has publicly praised Anthropic and pledged never to abruptly “cut off” the AI lab from SpaceX’s servers, after users on X suggested he could disable a rival that relies on his infrastructure. Musk went so far as to admit he was “clearly wrong about Anthropic,” reversing his September 2025 claim that “winning was…
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Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?
Sequoia partner David Cahn, who three years ago first quantified the revenue needed to justify Silicon Valley’s spending on AI infrastructure, has updated his calculations to reflect the industry’s continued expansion. He now estimates that AI infrastructure spending will reach $1.5 trillion in 2026, and that the sector will ultimately need to generate around $3…
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Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Is Advising the Federal Reserve on the Economic Impact of AI as Part of a ‘Productivity and Jobs’ Taskforce
The US Federal Reserve has appointed Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma to a newly formed “Productivity and Jobs” taskforce charged with assessing the economic impact of new technologies, including artificial intelligence. The appointment is notable both for its high profile — Sharma sits alongside venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and Stanford economist Charles I. Jones —…
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OpenAI releases a new ChatGPT tool for all things work related
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a general-purpose productivity agent that marks the biggest step yet in its months-long effort to build a desktop “super app” combining ChatGPT, its Codex coding agent and the Atlas web browser. Whereas Codex focused mainly on coding, Work is pitched as a broader assistant for ambitious everyday tasks, and it…
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The ChatGPT browser is already dead
OpenAI is shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its AI-powered web browser capable of carrying out tasks on a user’s behalf, less than a year after its launch. Announced in October, the browser will be “sunsetted” with deprecation targeted for 9 August, a decision confirmed as part of OpenAI’s broader “ChatGPT Work” announcements. The move matters because…