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OpenAI has announced a new series of models under the GPT-five-point-six banner, including a flagship called Sol alongside Terra and Luna. The catch is that none of them are publicly available yet. The US government requested restricted access, and OpenAI complied, though the company was careful to say it doesn't want that kind of arrangement to become the permanent norm. It's a rare moment of a tech giant openly chafing against the terms of its own cooperation with Washington.
In a quieter corner of the internet, a developer answered what was essentially a dare. After someone in a font design discussion jokingly asked whether anyone would sacrifice their sanity to build a QR code renderer inside a TrueType font, one person said yes. Using a rotating cast of AI assistants — swapping between them as usage limits ran out — they actually pulled it off. It's the kind of absurdist engineering project that serves no obvious purpose and yet reveals something genuinely interesting about what's possible inside old file formats.
And in the ongoing drama around AI criticism, a piece circulating today accuses researcher Gary Marcus of trademarking a rebranded version of a prediction that didn't pan out. The allegation is that rather than retiring a failed forecast, he relabeled it and protected the phrase legally. It's a story about accountability in a field where bold claims and short memories often travel together.
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