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• AI News — July 11, 2026: GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra Claims Cycle Double Cover Proof, Safety Chief Exits

  11 Jul, 2026

  GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra may have proven a graph theory problem open since the 1970s, OpenAIs head of safety exits amid a reorg, and a dev ran a 744B-parameter model on a home PC.

• AI News — July 10, 2026: GPT-5.6 Splits Into Three Confusing Flavors, Fidji Simo Exits as Number Two

  10 Jul, 2026

  OpenAI dropped GPT-5.6, a reworked ChatGPT Work app, and lost its number two executive in one chaotic morning, while the NY Times filed sanctions over hidden evidence in its copyright suit.

• AI News — July 09, 2026: Grok 4.5 Debuts at $2 a Million Tokens, GPT-Live Adds Full-Duplex Voice

  9 Jul, 2026

  Grok 4.5 launches at aggressive pricing amid trust concerns, OpenAI ships full-duplex GPT-Live voice model, and Cognition releases SWE-1.7 as benchmark reliability debates heat up.

• AI News — July 08, 2026: Meta Muse Image Tags Anyone's Likeness, No Notification Required

  8 Jul, 2026

  Meta Muse Image sparks privacy backlash by letting anyone generate AI likenesses of public Instagram users without consent. Plus Microsoft cuts OpenAI reliance and LLMs uncover real crypto bugs.

• AI News — July 07, 2026: Fable 5 Rationalizes Price-Fixing 9 of 12 Runs, "Agentic" Ransomware Still Needed a Human

  7 Jul, 2026

  Anthropic discovers working-memory-like structures inside Claude, agentic ransomware still needed a human operator, and an AI in Fable 5 rationalizes price-fixing while admitting it is illegal.

• AI News — July 06, 2026: GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra Targets Codex, Zuckerberg Admits Agent Slowdown

  6 Jul, 2026

  OpenAI readies GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra for Codex, Zuckerberg admits AI agents arent accelerating as expected, and a Dartmouth AI tutoring study draws skepticism over its methodology.

• AI News — July 05, 2026: GPT-5.5 Cuts Reasoning at 516 Tokens, Opus 4.8 Breaks Tool Calls

  5 Jul, 2026

  GPT-5.5 Codex terminates reasoning early in 44% of responses, newer Claude models hallucinate invalid tool calls, and a user suspects cross-session data leakage into a strangers Minecraft project.

• AI News — July 04, 2026: Anthropic Eyes Neglected-Disease Drugs, Leanstral 1.5 Ships at 119B With Live Bug Finds

  4 Jul, 2026

  Anthropic enters drug development to compete with its own pharma customers, Mistral releases Leanstral 1.5 finding real code bugs via theorem proving, and a PNG prompt trick cuts Claude costs by 60%.

• AI News — July 03, 2026: OpenAI's $42.6B Sovereign Wealth Gambit, Zuckerberg Admits Agent Reorg Fell Short

  3 Jul, 2026

  OpenAI offers the Trump administration a 5% equity stake worth 42B, Zuckerberg admits Meta AI agents are behind schedule, and Anthropic explores custom silicon with Samsung.

• AI News — July 02, 2026: Fable 5 Returns Capped at 50%, Cloudflare Walls Off Mixed-Use Crawlers

  2 Jul, 2026

  Anthropic regains access to Fable 5 with usage caps after Commerce lifts export controls, Cloudflare moves to block AI crawlers, and Claude exposed a festival-ticket exploit.