Quick Terra briefings for every feed item, plus selected source-reviewed analysis. The label on each article tells you which is which.
New Hampshire’s Executive Council voted 3–2 to reject a proposed $100 million Bitcoin-backed municipal bond, shelving an issuance that backers said would have been the first of its kind for a state government.
A federal housing act barring a Federal Reserve retail digital dollar until roughly 2031 has become law without Donald Trump's signature.
Circle received final OCC approval for a national trust bank, placing USDC reserve management and custody under one federal framework.
OpenAI is reportedly retiring Atlas less than eight months after launch and moving its features into ChatGPT’s updated Chrome sidebar extension.
The Decoder reports that Bun was fully ported from Zig to Rust, with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 doing most of the work in a claimed 11-day, million-line effort.
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol independently post-trained the smaller Luna model from a vague prompt, reporting a higher internal benchmark score than GPT-5.5.
Tencent is reportedly discussing a majority stake in AI-agent startup Manus at about a $2 billion valuation, after Beijing blocked Meta’s proposed deal.
EU regulators signaled that the Digital Services Act could require changes to Meta’s autoplay and infinite-scroll features, though the available record is single-source.
Meta disabled an Instagram AI image feature after backlash over generation from public-account content without the owner’s consent.
SK Hynix has raised $26.5 billion in what the research record describes as the largest foreign U.S. IPO ever, alongside pressure to expand U.S. chip manufacturing.
Apple alleges that secrets tied to unreleased products were taken amid hiring for OpenAI’s hardware effort, creating a legal test before its first device is expected.
Hydra merged a change titled “Preserve pending deposits after restarting after rotation,” marked as fixing issue #2642. The stated outcome is that pending deposits survive this specific node lifecycle sequence: rotation followed by restart.
A merged Hydra change addresses event-replay failures affecting certain non-canonical inline datums. It is a repository change, not yet evidence of a released hydra-node version or deployment.
Intersect’s governance-actions repository received draft work for “alpha” and “alpha prime,” but the record does not show a submitted on-chain action or live vote.
Teleoperated humanoid robots performed preclinical surgery on live pigs, marking an early robotics milestone while remaining far from autonomous clinical use.
OpenAI is reportedly shutting down ChatGPT Atlas less than a year after its launch, according to the supplied research record. The reported change would move Atlas’s agentic-browsing features into OpenAI’s desktop app and a Chrome extension.
Databricks says GLM 5.2 matched Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 in its internal coding tests at a lower per-task cost, but the comparison has not been independently corroborated.
AI’s financial ambitions are attracting renewed ROI scrutiny, while Microsoft’s reported emissions rise points to a tangible cost of data-center expansion.
OpenAI has withdrawn its endorsement of SWE-Bench Pro after finding that roughly 30% of its tasks are faulty, according to the supplied research record. The development matters because benchmark results are often used to compare coding models across the field.
OpenAI’s AGI chief, Fidji Simo, is leaving her full-time role and moving to a part-time advisor position after a medical leave that lasted longer than expected. The change removes a senior leader at a consequential moment for the company.
News publishers have asked for sanctions, alleging OpenAI concealed evidence and deleted logs in a copyright case involving ChatGPT outputs and journalism.
Meta opened Muse Spark 1.1 to developers through a new Model API, adding a low-priced option for coding-oriented AI workloads.
OpenAI says ChatGPT Work can run cross-app workflows with GPT-5.6 and a rebranded Codex, though the supplied record does not independently test its performance.
OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 family is now generally available after previously being held in a government-approved limited preview. The company is emphasizing intelligence-per-token and performance-per-dollar, while Sam Altman has called it OpenAI’s best model yet.