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Fidji Simo says she has decided to leave her full-time role at OpenAI and transition to being a part-time adviser after her medical condition worsened — The head of artificial general intelligence won't return from extended medical leave, a major leadership change as the AI giant prepares to go public
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| Axios: |
OpenAI broadly releases GPT-5.6, and launches ChatGPT Work, an AI agent that can gather context across apps and files to create documents, on macOS and Windows — - Sol is the most powerful version, while Luna is designed for speed. … - A new “ultra” mode within Sol allows the system …
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| OpenAI: |
GPT-5.6 Sol costs $5 per 1M input tokens and $30 per 1M output tokens, GPT-5.6 Terra costs $2.50 and $15, and GPT-5.6 Luna costs $1 and $6 — More intelligence from every token, stronger performance per dollar, and more capability on demand for your hardest work.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser, in favor of the new ChatGPT desktop app — ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI's standalone desktop browser, is being sunset in favor of the new ChatGPT desktop app. — OpenAI released an all-new ChatGPT desktop app today …
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a “step-change” from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview — Muse Spark 1.1 is available to US developers through a public API preview.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: AI contractor marketplace Mercor is discussing raising new funds at a roughly $20B valuation, less than a year after raising money at a $10B valuation — Mercor, a startup that helps improve artificial intelligence models with rich specialized data, is discussing raising new funds …
More: Forbes
| Lily Mae Lazarus / Fortune: |
Mercor acquires Deeptune, which builds reinforcement learning environments for AI agents, three months after CEO Brendan Foody backed Deeptune's $43M Series A — Brendan Foody started Mercor when he was 19 years old. Now he's 23, worth billions on paper, and running one of the fastest-growing companies in AI history.
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| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
Micron raises its US capex commitment to $250B through 2035, adding $50B for New York, Idaho, Virginia, and other projects, and invests $500M in GlobalWafers — Micron Technology Inc. plans to increase its spending on new plants in the US to $250 billion to help meet unprecedented demand … | Andrew Ackerman / Washington Post: |
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh names Marc Andreessen and Xbox CEO Asha Sharma to lead a task force on the economic impact of new technologies, including AI — The billionaire investor will help shape how the Federal Reserve assesses a technology his firm has bet heavily on.
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| Sam Clark / Politico: |
The EU Parliament advances a bill letting tech companies scan for CSAM, reviving a proposal rejected in March, with an exemption for E2EE services like WhatsApp — Top-level pressure and obscure procedures breathe new life into a controversial proposal to allow scanning for online child sexual abuse material.
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic debuts a “reflection” dashboard in beta for Free, Pro, and Max users with memory turned on, to track their Claude activity over 1, 3, 6, or 12 months — Today we're introducing, in beta, a new way to reflect on and refine how you use Claude.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock — Streamer is rethinking some of its core strategies to compete with rivals — Top Netflix executives who gathered …
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| Jarred Sumner / bun.com: |
Bun's creator says he rewrote Bun from Zig to Rust using a Claude Fable 5 prerelease version in 11 days, noting it would've taken three engineers “about a year” — Disclosure: Bun was acquired by Anthropic in December 2025. I and others on the Bun team work at Anthropic.
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| Hannah Lang / Reuters: |
Coinbase's chief legal officer, Paul Grewal, is stepping down after six years; VP of legal Molly Abraham moves into his role with the title of general counsel — Coinbase (COIN.O)'s Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal is stepping down after six years at the U.S. crypto giant where he fought off … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Character.AI launches three human-written, AI-generated microdramas, whose characters users can chat with, and aims to eventually let users make their own shows — Microdramas are such a rage these days that nearly every kind of company in the attention economy space — be they dedicated microdrama apps … | Maxwell Zeff / Wired: |
Anthropic, set to add usage-based billing for Fable 5 on July 12, aims to return the model to Claude's subscription plans “when sufficient capacity allows” — Claude subscribers must soon pay usage-based fees to access Anthropic's best consumer AI model—a sign that the golden era of AI subscriptions is ending.
More: RuntimeWire and Don't Worry About the Vase
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will automatically add a disclosure to ads that are made with its AI advertising tools, expanding the disclosure beyond election ads to all ads — Google is rolling out a new feature aimed at helping people understand when an ad they're seeing was made using AI technology.| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
PitchBook: US venture funding hit $412.7B in H1 2026, up 30% on all of 2025, with AI startup funding accounting for 86%, or $355.9B; Q2 saw seven $1B+ rounds — U.S. venture capital deal value hit $412.7 billion in the first half of 2026, nearly 30% more than investors put to work in all of last year …
More: PitchBook, Phoenix Business Journal, Benzinga, Chicago Business Journal, and Axios
| Beatrice Nolan / Fortune: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI “regulation without transparent or complete rules”, and adds that “without rules, businesses can't plan” — Microsoft President Brad Smith has weighed in on U.S. policy on AI, saying that the Trump administration's …
More: Microsoft, Forbes, and TechCrunch
| Aaron Tilley / The Information: |
PrismML says it ran a 27B-parameter Qwen 3.6 model on an iPhone 17 Pro, bigger than any prior on-device model; sources: Apple talked with PrismML about its tech — Apple is on a quest to shrink powerful AI models to run on iPhones, which could cut down on cloud computing costs and enhance user privacy.
More: MacRumors, Blockonomi, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, and iThinkDifferent
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Interpol and law enforcement agencies arrest 5,811 suspects and seize $293M in an operation combating social engineering scams and fraud across 97 countries — Law enforcement agencies have arrested 5,811 suspects and seized $293 million in illicit assets in a global anti-fraud operation spanning 97 countries.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
SAP will make it easier for customers to switch to rival service providers or end contracts, averting a possible EU antitrust fine after a September 2025 probe — SAP (SAPG.DE), Europe's largest software maker, will make it easier for its customers to switch to rival service providers or end …
More: The Register, CIO Dive, Techstrong IT, and diginomica
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Enterprise AI agent startup Lyzr is raising a $100M Series B at a ~$500M valuation, up from $250M in March, and says its agents ran outreach for the round — A startup that helps enterprises build AI agents proved the technology's value in the most practical way possible: by deploying one during its own fundraising.Sponsor Posts
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