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After math PR disasters, OpenAI backs a nine-person elite advisory group — independence claimed, influence unproven, and 100-plus claimed results waiting in the wings.
OpenAI and Grab’s GO Forward with AI aims to train 30,000 driver, delivery, and merchant partners — practical skills, not another chatbot demo.
Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol/Luna aren’t moonshots — they’re price cuts with modest gains as enterprises shop the frontier like a catalog.
OpenAI’s GPT-6 caching upgrades are infrastructure for agents that run for hours — cheaper tokens, faster turns, and tools to see when reuse breaks.
Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and Extreme Gen 6 push on-device agents — local scribes, speaker ID, and a 30B MoE on the Extreme SKU — as phones stay the default AI surface.
EvilTokens turned inbox compromise into a subscription product — AI for target picking and lure drafting — until Microsoft and partners tore down the shop.
British Columbia wants OpenAI to fund Tumbler Ridge’s new school and force chat-log disclosure — arguing apology isn’t a remedy after ChatGPT-linked planning.
Nat Friedman says Muse was built from scratch but heavily inspired by OpenClaw — including nearly identical SOUL.md — as Meta races to scale a personal agent.
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5.5 opens the 5.5 family claiming Fable 5.1-level work at roughly 40% lower running cost than Opus 5 — with tighter safeguards and thinking that won’t switch off.
OpenAI extends GPT-6 beyond Astra with Sol and Luna — half the API price of 5.6, stronger work/coding scores, and fewer flagged factual mistakes.
TechCrunch frames Sol and Luna as OpenAI’s efficiency wave — half-price APIs, fewer mistakes, and a release timed minutes after Anthropic’s Opus drop.
NVIDIA shows confidential Blackwell inference can keep most of its speed — if the runtime is rebuilt for encrypted memory paths.