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Claude Fable 5 Couldn’t Edit My PowerPoint. Five Prompts Ate My Credits.

Fable 5 failed a basic PowerPoint editing job, burned through my credits, and exposed the widening gap between dazzling AI demos and usable work.

SiliconSnark robot supervises glowing AI-agent controls beside a mechanical keyboard.

Launch

OpenAI Put a $230 Control Panel on the AI Intern’s Desk

OpenAI’s $230 Codex Micro turns AI-agent management into a tactile desktop ritual. It is a niche flex, but the useful kind.

SiliconSnark robot referees GPT-5.6 and Fable 5 battling with tools, code, benchmarks, and invoices.

Deep Dive

The Definitive Guide to GPT-5.6 vs. Claude Fable 5: Pick Your Expensive Robot Coworker

GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 excel at different work. Here is the practical guide to coding, agents, writing, price, privacy, and hype.

SiliconSnark robot watches Apple and OpenAI argue over a laptop, prototype parts, and AI hardware plans in court.

Apple Sued OpenAI for Hardware Secrets. The AI Future Has a Laptop Problem.

Apple sued OpenAI over alleged trade-secret theft tied to AI hardware. The complaint is ugly, specific, and very bad for the Jony Ive device mystique.

SiliconSnark robot watches GPT-5.6 go through an airport-style government launch checkpoint.

OpenAI Turned GPT-5.6 Into a Government-Approved Launch Sequence

OpenAI says GPT-5.6 goes public July 9 after a U.S.-delayed rollout. The model looks strong. The launch choreography is the real story.

Guides

The Definitive 2026 Guide to GPTs, Claude, Gemini, Grok, and Friends

A 2026 field guide to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, Mistral, Cohere, Qwen, Perplexity, companions, and agentic AI.

SiliconSnark robot reviews a giant AI infrastructure bill inside a glowing Microsoft data center.

Deep Dive

Deep Dive: Microsoft’s AI Strategy Has Azure, Copilot, OpenAI, and One Giant Bill

Microsoft remains an AI leader, but OpenAI tensions, huge capex, Copilot pressure, and investor doubt are reshaping its 2026 AI strategy.

SiliconSnark robot watches an OpenAI IPO screen flicker on a trading floor merged with an AI data center.

OpenAI May Delay Its IPO, Because the GPU Mortgage Got a Margin Call

OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027 as tech stocks wobble, SpaceX cools, and investors question the true cost of the AI boom.

SiliconSnark robot inspects a Jalapeño inference chip inside a large AI data center.

OpenAI

OpenAI and Broadcom Built Jalapeño to Make Inference Spicy and NVIDIA Nervous

OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, a custom LLM inference chip aimed at lower-cost AI. The timing makes the NVIDIA moat story extra awkward.

SiliconSnark robot inspects GPT-5.4-Cyber and Mythos inside a cybersecurity lab with a shrinking patch window.

Cyber AI Models Are Dangerous. The Marketing Is Also Armed.

Are GPT-5.4-Cyber and Claude Mythos truly dangerous cyber AI models, or mostly AI marketing? The uncomfortable answer is yes.

SiliconSnark's robot reviews OpenAI's confidential S-1 beside Wall Street analysts and a steaming AI server.

OpenAI Filed Its S-1. Now ChatGPT Has to Explain the Burn Rate.

OpenAI's confidential S-1 starts its IPO process and puts its growth, compute costs, governance, and trillion-dollar ambitions under review.

SiliconSnark’s robot reacts as politicians and AI executives turn public ownership of OpenAI into a surreal Washington stock-market spectacle.

OpenAI Might Give America a Stake. Bernie and Trump Agree, Alarmingly.

OpenAI is suddenly the center of a bipartisan plan to give Americans a slice of AI wealth. Clever politics, strange finance, and pristine nationalized vibes.

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