GPT-5.6 Sol Looks Like a Real Upgrade; Most Early Arguments Are About Routing, Defaults, and Rollout
GPT-5.6 appears to be a real step up over GPT-5.5 in OpenAI’s own materials, but that evidence is concentrated in…
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GPT-5.6 Sol Had No Formal Government Safety Clearance Before Release
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol did not go through a formal federal “safe to release” approval process before broad launch. Instead, the…
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Meta’s AI Glasses Now Disable the Camera If the Recording Light Is Blocked
Meta’s AI glasses now disable the camera if the recording LED is covered or physically tampered with. The company announced…
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Google’s AI Training Opt-outs Are Split Across Search History, Gemini Activity, and Media Settings
If you use Google Search, Maps, News, or Lens while account-linked history saving is on, Google says that saved activity…
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Anthropic Is Reportedly Working on a Custom AI Chip With Samsung
Anthropic has reportedly begun preliminary work on a custom AI chip and is discussing Samsung Foundry as a manufacturing partner,…
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Lumo Does Not Log Chats or Train on Them, and Saved History Is Zero-access Encrypted
Lumo is Proton’s privacy-first AI assistant, launched on July 23, 2025, and its defining pitch is simple: Proton says it…
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OpenAI Did Slow GPT-5.6, and the White House Now Looks Like a Gatekeeper
OpenAI did slow GPT-5.6: on June 26, 2026, it launched the model only to a small group of trusted partners…
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OpenAI’s Jalapeño Chip Is Its First Real Step Away From Nvidia for Inference
OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is its first custom AI accelerator, built with Broadcom specifically for LLM inference rather than training, and…
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Bot Farms, Fake Accounts, and Deep-Pocketed Donors: Inside One Nation’s Online Machine
One Nation’s 2026 online surge is best explained by four distinct layers: coordinated real supporters on Facebook, foreign AI-generated fake-news…
