Data centers face construction delays and energy bottleneck as resistance grows.
OpenAI launched its new GPT-5.6 model family, featuring Sol, Terra, and Luna variants, promising enhanced efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The models boast strong cybersecurity capabilities and aim to outperform competitors like Anthropic, with Sol being highlighted as its best coding model yet.
OpenAI is discontinuing its AI-powered Atlas browser, launched in October, and will integrate its agentic browsing features into the ChatGPT desktop app and a new Chrome extension. This move follows a directive to cut back on "side quests" and reflects a strategy to embed AI browsing capabilities into existing user workflows rather than creating a standalone browser.
Elon Musk reassured users that he would not cut off Anthropic's access to SpaceX servers, despite their rivalry. Anthropic is a major customer, paying $1.25 billion monthly for compute power.
Humanoid robots, remotely controlled by surgeons, successfully removed gallbladders from live pigs in a preclinical trial. This human-robot team-up offers a potentially cheaper and more accessible alternative to specialized surgical robots, with applications in rural areas, battlefields, and space.
A Microsoft Defender patch for a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-50656) may cause Windows machines to write files large enough to consume all disk space. The researcher NightmareEclipse disclosed the issue, stating that new mitigations in mpengine.dll can lead to massive file caching.
OpenAI is sunsetting its ChatGPT Atlas browser, launched less than a year ago, on August 9th. The company is focusing on its new ChatGPT Work features, incorporating learnings from Atlas users to improve browsing and task completion on the open web.
