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The Arion Brief: AI at 10 - July 9, 2026

Today on AI at 10: OpenAI's GPT-5.6 goes public in three price tiers the same week Grok 4.5 launches and Gemini 3.5 Pro gets delayed, while SpaceX's $60B acquisition of Cursor-maker Anysphere reshapes the AI coding market. Michael Fauscette breaks down what the shift from "pick a winner" to managing a multi-vendor AI portfolio means for enterprise buyers, plus a new Illinois audit law, Anthropic's $65B raise, and how WPP and AWS are moving agentic AI from pilots to production.

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