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OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 → OpenAI just dropped its most capable model yet, purpose-built for real agentic work. It understands complex goals, uses tools intelligently, checks its own output, and carries long tasks through to completion across coding, research, data analysis, and software operation. This is also the first major model trained on NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPUs, giving it a clear leap in both intelligence and efficiency. Read more here →
OpenAI’s new GPT-Image-2 dominates image generation → The model took first place across every Image Arena leaderboard with a record 242-point lead in text-to-image and a 93 percent win rate in blind human tests. Read more here →
Tim Cook to step down as Apple CEO → The longtime leader will leave in September and hand the role to current hardware chief John Ternus, marking the end of the last major Steve Jobs-era executives at the top. Read more here →
GPT 5.5 is such a good model:
ChatGPT Image-2 demo:
AI made your grammar too perfect.. No problem. Use AI to sprinkle some typos back in : )
SpaceX partners with Cursor on AI coding → The deal pairs Cursor’s IDE with SpaceX’s Colossus supercomputer to train the world’s best coding and knowledge-work models, with SpaceX gaining the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion. Read more here →
Naval backs USVC retail venture fund → AngelList’s new SEC-registered fund lets anyone invest as little as $500 in a basket of private tech companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Vercel with no accreditation required. Read more here →
Claude adds interactive charts and diagrams → The model can now create live, editable charts directly inside any chat and it is available today in beta to all users, including free. Read more here →
OpenAI launches workspace agents in ChatGPT → Teams can now build and share persistent agents that run long workflows across docs, email, Slack, and other tools while continuing in the background. Available in research preview. Read more here →
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.6 open-source coding model → The new model leads open-source benchmarks in long-horizon coding, agent swarms, and multimodal tasks while running up to 12 hours of continuous execution and outputting real files instead of just chat. Read more here →
a16z leads $17.5M seed in Glif → The creative super agent combines nearly every major AI model in one conversation so users can generate ads, videos, music, and full marketing content from simple prompts. Read more here →
