📢 AI News Roundup: What's New in the AI World?

OpenAI just launched GPT-5.6 Sol, its most capable model ever, alongside two cheaper siblings, but they all remain locked to some 20 vetted partners at the U.S. government’s request — as the company works its way to a broader release. GPT-5.6 is a three-tier family: Sol coming as the flagship, Terra as the balanced one matching GPT-5.5 at 2x less cost, and Luna being the fastest and cheapest

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New Exponential View research, analyzing data from various sources, shows that the generative AI industry hit $110B in revenues last year and is on track to touch $175B, scaling 3x faster than any prior technology, including the internet. In 2023, the AI industry needed 180 days to add $1B in total revenue; now, it takes two days, and quarterly growth has held at around 35% for over a year.

Washington cleared Anthropic to send Mythos 5 back to 100 vetted firms. Anthropic is restoring Mythos 5 to organizations that operate and defend critical infrastructure. The government dropped the export license requirement for the approved partners. Fable 5, the version built for the general public, is still shut off as Anthropic negotiates its return.

Naveen Rao, founder of Unconventional AI, can cut the power AI burns on inference by up to 1,000 times. The idea rests on an oscillator-based architecture, a way of computing that’s nothing like today’s chips. The catch: the chip doesn’t exist yet. The claim runs on a software simulation, the team is under 50 people, and no schematics have shipped.

Elon Musk said Grok 4.5, trained with supplemental Cursor data, is in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla, claiming its performance matches Anthropic’s Claude Opus. Grok 4.5 got its coding edge from Cursor after SpaceX agreed to buy maker Anysphere for 60 billion dollars in mid June. The model runs on xAI's V9 foundation which finished training on May 26, about triple the size of the version still handling Grok on X.

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Lithium stock prices grew 2X+ from June to January. But the real winner may be a private stock: EnergyX. Their tech can recover 3X more lithium than traditional methods, leading General Motors to invest. Now they’re preparing to unlock ~13M tons of lithium. Invest in EnergyX for $13/share by the 7/16 deadline.

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🏢 Oracle cuts 21,000 jobs as AI automates 13% of workforce

🛠️ 76% of workers now bring their own AI tools to work

⚡ Google rations AI capacity to Meta amid infrastructure crunch

📊 Google Cloud backlog hits $460B as AI demand outpaces supply

💸 OpenAI Hires Uber India's Former Chief to Run Its Second-Biggest Market.

☁️ The Compute Crunch Hits Big Tech as Google Rations Meta's Gemini Use.

🍎 OpenAI Poaches Apple's Vision Pro Boss to Build Its AI Devices.

🔧 Qualcomm Eyes $10B for Tenstorrent, Tripling the Chip Startup's Value in a Year.

SpaceX just filed for an IPO valued at up to $1.75 trillion. When that much capital becomes liquid all at once, where it goes next is the big question.

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