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The frontier models came off the leash this week: GPT-5.6 reached the public and Grok 4.5 landed days later, both cheaper and more capable. The first fully autonomous AI ransomware also appeared in the wild, and the UN opened its first global forum on governing the technology. Here's your plain-English roundup and why it matters for your business.
The centre of gravity in AI shifted this week. Anthropic launched a cheaper, more agentic Claude Sonnet 5 and quietly overtook OpenAI on revenue, while OpenAI offered Washington a 5% stake and Australia's public service raced to appoint AI officers. Here's your plain-English roundup of what happened and why it matters for your business.
The AI race went global this week: China trained a 1.6-trillion-parameter model entirely on home-grown chips, OpenAI unveiled its GPT-5.6 family under government supervision, and Europe eased its AI Act. Here's your plain-English roundup of what happened and why it matters for your business.
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