AI Daily – Thursday, July 9, 2026

My Daily AI & Markets Briefing · Jul 9, 2026 · 8m

SOXL explodes +16% as dip buyers flood back into semis, though analysts warn peak chip pricing fears — not demand collapse — drove the original selloff that wiped $1.3 trillion in July. • OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, Luna) launches publicly today after US government review clears, landing in direct head-to-head competition with xAI's simultaneously released Grok 4.5. • OpenAI also debuts GPT-Live-1 voice models with smarter turn-taking and interruption handling, pushing real-time AI conversation closer to human parity. • Ollama raises $65M with nearly 9 million users, confirming that…