OpenAI Disbands Its Catastrophic-Risk Preparedness Team
OpenAI disbanded its Preparedness team, which assessed whether its models could enable catastrophic harm, distributing the work across other teams as it prepares for a major IPO.
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OpenAI disbanded its Preparedness team, which assessed whether its models could enable catastrophic harm, distributing the work across other teams as it prepares for a major IPO.
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.6, built for long-running agents and visual work, claiming parity with GPT-5.6 Sol on a composite benchmark while keeping its low, efficiency-focused pricing.
OpenAI made ChatGPT Health available to all US adults, letting them connect medical records and fitness data, a day after a pastor sued over advice he says nearly killed him.
Representatives Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, which would require frontier AI developers to keep the ability to shut down their models and let DHS order it.
Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, cheaper and more token-efficient models for AI agents, plus a cyber-focused model restricted to governments and trusted partners.
Chinese startup Moonshot released Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model it says rivals Anthropic’s Claude, as the US-China AI gap narrows.
OpenAI’s new GPT-5.6 prompting guide urges developers to write shorter, outcome-first prompts, saying leaner instructions raised scores 10-15% while cutting tokens and cost sharply.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed a US-led standards body to test the most powerful AI models before release and coordinate an industry slowdown if risks mount.
SpaceXAI’s Grok 4.5 tied GPT-5.6 Sol for first on the SWE-Atlas-QnA coding benchmark, a narrow win that highlights the model’s real edge: efficiency and low cost.
Anthropic extended free Claude Fable 5 access to July 19, its second extension in a week, as OpenAI removed usage caps and made GPT-5.6 Sol cheaper to run.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, a GPT-5.6 agent that pulls context from a user’s apps to produce finished docs, slides and sites, as it merges Codex into a unified desktop app.