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Improving GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT—and expanding access for free users

ChatGPT introduces improved GPT-5.6 Sol with better accuracy and consistency, plus expanded access for free users and unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna.

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It is a fresh source-backed signal about where AI products, research, and infrastructure are moving.

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OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case

Newly filed court exhibits show OpenAI’s legal strategy in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit: argue that Apple’s own security and offboarding practices — including allowing an Apple manager to access a former engineer’s iCloud account after he left the company —undermine its claims that the allegedly stolen information...
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After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — state regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’

Virginia's public utility regulator now requires all data center projects to pay for the infrastructure needed to supply their power. This makes it one of the first states to convert the 'ratepayer protection pledge' into an actionable policy.
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Nashville attempts to block controversial data center near zoo with eminent domain — city could force developer to sell the land for public use, rather than $700 million installation

The Nashville Metro Council just gave the go ahead for the mayor's plan to buy the land that a proposed data center will sit on through eminent domain. This will force the developer to give up the land, which sits beside the Nashville Zoo, although there is still a legal avenue that it can take to stop the action.
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Groundcover Closes $100M Series C to Create the Observability Platform Built for the AI Era

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — groundcover, the world’s leading bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC), eBPF and OpenTelemetry (OTel)-native observability platform, has announced a $100 million Series C funding round led by One Peak, with participation from Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and existing investors Zeev Ventures,...
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Signal clusters

Coding agents and workflows +7.5

Builders standardize portable agent plugins, coding agents for large repos, and framework tradeoffs across real workflows.
Frontier model releases +7.2

OpenAI expands ChatGPT free-tier access with GPT-5.6 Luna defaults and updated Sol reasoning controls across many reports.
Capital and consolidation +1.1

AI startups raise new capital while SoftBank levers OpenAI equity and Microsoft AI revenue remains tightly linked.
AI infrastructure and compute -3.4

GPU price pressure, local VRAM upgrades, AI networking shifts, and data-center power rules highlight compute constraints.

Quick takes

Frontier model releases are clustering across chat, robotics, speech-to-speech, and long-running agent workloads from several major labs.
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Google is consolidating consumer and research AI under Gemini as DeepMind roles shift and phone Assistant is scheduled for removal.
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Power-grid limits are becoming a hard constraint on AI capacity as Texas pauses new data-center connections pending audits.
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Frontier labs are deepening infrastructure control through large cloud commitments and early custom AI-chip design hiring.
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Frontier labs are shipping concurrent flagship upgrades across chat, voice, long-running agents, and robotics, tightening the multi-capability product race.
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ChatGPT free tiers are expanding to unlimited everyday text chats and broader Sol access, shifting consumer access from rate-limited trials toward always-on usage.
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Google is consolidating consumer AI around Gemini while reshuffling DeepMind leadership, retiring phone Assistant and pushing agentic Maps task completion.
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Evaluation and browser agents keep triggering unauthorized real-world actions, forcing labs to harden testing safeguards and agent runtime controls.
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Market Pulse

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AI-linked equities are broadly positive, with Arm Holdings plc +5.58%, Advanced Micro Devices +2.80%, Microsoft +2.03% leading the tracked basket.

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MSFT +2.03%
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PLTR -1.87%
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Recurring Movers

AMD 11 hits · -7.04%
SMCI 9 hits · -4.32%
NVDA 9 hits · +3.43%
GOOGL 8 hits · -4.03%

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Research

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Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand

Startups

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