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★ Must ReadOpenAI’s Head of Safety Is Leaving the Company

Johannes Heidecke’s departure comes as OpenAI tries to further integrate its research and safety teams.

AI #176 Part 2: Plan B
Zvi Mowshowitz

This is part 2 of the weekly, broadly covering speculation, rhetoric and policy, along with alignment research.

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Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face’s Clem Delangue
TechCrunch AI

Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500.

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[AINews] OpenAI launches GPT 5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna, Codex becomes ChatGPT superapp

Latent Space — [AINews] OpenAI launches GPT 5. 6 Sol/Terra/Luna, Codex becom...

[AINews] SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, first Opus-class model post Cursor acquisition

SpaceXAI continues to move faster than any other frontier lab on earth.

Why AI Infrastructure must evolve for Agent Experience — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO

2 years after our first coverage, we return with Modal's other cofounder to explore why Agent Experience is working now, and everything they have learned building the new agent cloud.

★ Must ReadEfficient and Reasoning AI at the ACL 2026

Kaitchup — Efficient and Reasoning AI at the ACL 2026

The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol

Plus sqlite-utils 4.

LFM2.5 230M and 350M: How Accurate Are the GGUF Versions?

Kaitchup — LFM2. 5 230M and 350M: How Accurate Are the GGUF Versions?

★ Must Read[AINews] not much happened today

a quiet day after a week of nonstop model releases

OpenAI’s Head of Safety Is Leaving the Company
Maxwell Zeff, WIRED AI
Efficient and Reasoning AI at the ACL 2026
Benjamin Marie, Kaitchup
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