OpenAI launched GPT-5.6, its latest family of models, with improvements across a range of areas including cybersecurity. The release came after the Trump administration cleared the model for public rollout, following a limited preview period during which it had been available only to government-approved organisations. Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive, called it "the best model we have ever produced." Source
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's second-in-command, is stepping down from her full-time role as chief executive of AGI deployment after medical leave proved longer than expected. Ms Simo, who took a neuroimmune condition-related leave in April, will transition to a part-time advisory role. The departure leaves a leadership vacuum at a delicate moment as OpenAI eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterprise market. Source
Lyzr, a startup that builds AI agents for enterprises, raised $100 million in a funding round managed by its own AI agent. The feat serves as proof of concept for the startup's product, demonstrating that the agent can autonomously handle complex business workflows at scale. Source
The New York Times and other news publishers escalated their copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, filing a motion for sanctions alleging that the company hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs. The publishers say OpenAI concealed evidence that would have allowed them to detect whether their articles appeared in the model's training data. Source
Ollama, an open-source AI developer tool backed by Benchmark, raised $65 million and grew to nearly 9 million users. The platform, which helps developers run AI models on their personal computers, has accumulated 176,000 stars and nearly 17,000 forks on GitHub. Source