AI Daily: Saturday, July 11, 2026

My Daily AI & Markets Briefing · Jul 11, 2026 · 8m

OpenAI, Meta, and xAI launched GPT-5.6, Muse Spark 1.1, and Grok 4.5 within 72 hours — the biggest single-week frontier model blitz yet, with GPT-5.6's Sol Ultra already claiming a mathematical proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture. • Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft, alleging senior leadership directed former Apple engineers to steal hardware IP — a potentially existential legal threat to OpenAI's hardware ambitions. • Meta pulled its Instagram AI deepfake feature within days of launch after a backlash over consent, while also open-sourcing Muse Spark 1.1, a powerful multimodal…