OpenAI took GPT-5.6 general — three sizes (Luna, Terra, Sol, smallest to largest) — and launched ChatGPT Work, an agentic mode that runs jobs in the cloud for hours and can touch local files and desktop apps with permission. Sol lands just under Fable on aggregate intelligence benchmarks but beats it on several agentic-coding ones.
The New York Times and other plaintiffs asked the judge to sanction OpenAI, alleging it falsely claimed it couldn't search its training data and deleted billions of ChatGPT logs under a preservation order. Sanctions could include adverse-inference instructions that reshape the whole case.
The European Commission found Meta's Instagram and Facebook in preliminary breach of the Digital Services Act over addictive design — infinite scroll and engagement loops aimed at minors among the cited features. Meta gets a chance to respond; fines can reach 6% of global revenue.
Tangle steps back from the week's most-debated political story — Platner dropping his Maine Senate bid — to ask what the episode says about vetting, oppo research, and how parties pick candidates in the first place. Argument over recap.