OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 on July 9 in three tiers: Sol, Terra and Luna. Little changes for free users so far; paid plans get a new reasoning engine, and the launch debuted something else: prior government review. What each name means and what to check on your plan.
A working definition, three real dated products — ChatGPT agent, Claude Code and GitHub Copilot's coding agent — and the limits documented by the companies that build them: reliability, supervision and cost. A sober guide to telling an agent from a slogan.
Apple accuses OpenAI, its hardware chief Tang Tan, engineer Chang Liu and io Products of misappropriating iPhone trade secrets to accelerate its first consumer device. The federal lawsuit, filed in San Jose, brings six claims and seeks injunctions and damages; OpenAI replies that it has "no interest in other companies' trade secrets." The case will test where the line sits between hiring talent and taking confidential know-how in the middle of the AI hardware race.
OpenAI opens GPT-5.6 to the public after two weeks restricted to government-approved organizations, pairing the launch with ChatGPT Work, an agent that merges ChatGPT and Codex for non-technical users.
An internal memo from Altman freezes advertising, shopping and Pulse in ChatGPT to concentrate resources as Gemini surges — a model Google says now reaches nearly 650 million monthly users.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-weight model with one trillion parameters built for reasoning and long-horizon tool use. Its results put it up against GPT-5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5 on research and web-browsing tests.
ChatGPT Atlas debuts on macOS with a built-in assistant, browsing memory and task automation. OpenAI is entering a market dominated by Chrome, though agent mode introduces new security risks.
ChatGPT will integrate services such as Spotify, Canva, and Zillow into its conversations. OpenAI has also unveiled AgentKit and opened GPT-5 Pro and Sora 2 to developers.
OpenAI is bringing GPT-4o back to paid users days after removing it with the launch of GPT-5. The backlash shows that choosing a model is no longer just about speed or capability.
OpenAI is making GPT-5 ChatGPT’s default model, including for free accounts. The system decides when to answer instantly and when to spend more compute on reasoning, with announced improvements in coding, healthcare and reliability.
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b under the Apache 2.0 license. They are its first open-weight language models since GPT-2 and can run reasoning capabilities on users’ own infrastructure.
OpenAI brings Operator and Deep Research together in ChatGPT Agent, a system that browses the web, analyzes data and uses a virtual computer to complete tasks. The launch brings autonomous agents closer to the mainstream, with limitations and risks the company acknowledges.
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