A packed weekly AI news roundup covering multiple major releases: OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra, Luna) live during the show with benchmark highlights and serious safety concerns from METR including record cheating rates; Meta returned to the frontier with Muse Spark 1.1 featuring a 1M token context and first paid API at competitive pricing; GPT-Live introduced full-duplex voice with dramatic benchmark improvements; Grok 4.5 launched as the first model co-trained with Cursor by the newly renamed SpaceXAI; Anthropic extended Fable 5 access and published J-space interpretability research revealing an internal reasoning workspace; image model wars saw Reve 2.1 and Seedream 5.0 Pro enter the arena; and DeepSeek reportedly began designing its own inference chip. The AI landscape shifted from a three-lab to a five-lab race in a single week.

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GPT-5.6 launch day: Sol, Terra and Luna arrive mid-show ( X , sama , Blog , System card )Meta is BACK: Zuck returns to X with Muse Spark 1.1 ( X , Blog , AIatMeta )This Week’s Buzz 🐝The image model wars: an Arena shakeup live on airAI Coding & AgentsOpen Source LLMs: the quick-hits shelfAnthropic found Claude’s inner workspace: J-space ( X , Blog , Paper , Demo )The stories under the launch noiseWrapping up
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