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July 10, 2026, 5:01 AM

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Wall Street Journal:
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
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 …
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 …
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.
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
Bloomberg:
SK Hynix raises $26.5B in the largest ever US market debut by a foreign company, selling 177.9M ADRs for $149 each; the sale was more than 7x oversubscribed  —  SK Hynix Inc. raised $26.5 billion in its American depositary receipt offering, as the South Korean memory chipmaker powered through volatility …
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.
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Rose Horowitch / The Atlantic:
How the internet, smartphones, social media, and now generative AI are accelerating a drop in the reading of longer works like books  —  twenty-three hundred years ago, the legend goes, King Ptolemy I of Egypt asked his court adviser to assemble a comprehensive collection of the world's written works.
Gao Yuan / Bloomberg:
Interviews with employees and insiders reveal how CXMT is amassing tech, funding, and state support to challenge top memory chipmakers and build local suppliers  —  Founded by a US-trained entrepreneur, CXMT is racing to catch its rivals and using a largely domestic supplier network to shield itself from Washington.

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