Lot dropped this week and there's a pretty clear through-line, so figured I'd pull it together. Model releases: – OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 (Sol/Terra/Luna). The bit worth noting isn't the flagship — it's Terra, reportedly matching GPT-5….

A few stories from the past week that, taken together, point to a real shift at the model layer rather than just incremental releases: Meta and Llama. Multiple reports indicate Meta is stepping back from open-source Llama in favor of a proprietary prog…

Pulling together this week's major AI releases for anyone who didn't have time to track every blog post. Sticking to substantive changes, not hype. Anthropic — Claude Opus 4.8 Released this week. Headline pricing unchanged, but Fast Mode droppe…