Artificial Inteligence feed for Thursday, July 9, 2026

• Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI’s no. 2 role
• Fidji Simo steps down from leading OpenAI’s AGI work due to illness
• OpenAI launches its new family of models with GPT-5.6
• An AI agent startup just let its agent run its $100M fundraise
• OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, but its AI browser ambitions are still growing
• Elon Musk praises Mythos/Fable, promises not to ‘cut off’ Anthropic
• Can AI answer the $3 trillion question?
• The ChatGPT browser is already dead
• Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts
• Google will now tell you if an ad was made with AI
• Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1
• New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright trial
• Google will now disclose which ads are made with AI
• Paris-based AI voice startup Gradium raises $100M seed, backed by Nvidia
• How did the government decide OpenAI’s frontier model was safe to release?
• How to stop Meta’s AI image generator from using your Instagram photos
• Meta’s new AI chips will begin production in September
• Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created
• OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.6 after government greenlight — and announces ‘ChatGPT Work’
• Microsoft’s patch Tuesdays are about to get bigger
• Tiny robot boats build floating structures
• Anthropic’s new Claude feature is quietly selling you on AI
• Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits
• Meta says its new AI model is ready to compete on coding
• Say hello to Claude Wrapped
• Character.AI wants a piece of the microdrama pie
• GPT-5.6 is now the preferred model in Microsoft 365 Copilot
• FL Studio 2026 turns its AI chatbot into your assistant engineer
• Character.AI enters the microdrama arena with its own productions, but there’s a twist
• Popular open source AI developer tool Ollama raises $65M, grows to nearly 9M users
• Nandan Nilekani leaves GP role at Fundamentum as it launches $200M third fund
• GPT-5.6: Frontier intelligence that scales with your ambition
• GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty
• ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work