Social Media Briefing — July 10, 2026

Continuing our coverage of the GPT-Live rollout, OpenAI announces GPT-Live is fully rolled out to ChatGPT Go, Plus, and Pro users, with free-tier rollout underway, accessible via the updated mobile app.

Perplexity releases a research preview of a new orchestrator model in Perplexity Computer, an adapted GLM 5.2 post-trained for its harness, claiming near-frontier performance at about 0.344x of Opus cost.

Anthropic announces that its Long-Term Benefit Trust has appointed economist Dr. Ben Bernanke as a new member.

LeCun argues the biggest AI risk is power concentration among a few proprietary providers, and that open-source foundation models are the only path to AI sovereignty.

Following the GPT-5.6 launch we covered yesterday, Simon Willison shares detailed notes on GPT-5.6, highlighting new API features like programmatic tool calling and multi-agent support, plus pelican tests across six reasoning levels and three new models.

Ethan Mollick argues that as AI labs move from coding tools to general knowledge work, non-coders need more control and visibility rather than stripped-down interfaces.

Altman announces a GPT-5.6 livestream plus three product items: ChatGPT Work, a new ChatGPT desktop app, and hosted sites.

OpenAI cites the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index, claiming GPT-5.6 Sol sets a new top score of 80.0, ahead of Claude Fable 5, while using far fewer tokens, less time, and lower cost.

vLLM highlights MOSS-Transcribe-Diarize-0.9B, an open end-to-end model doing transcription, speaker diarization, and timestamping in one generative pass with day-0 vLLM support, handling up to ~90 minutes of audio without chunking.

Official OpenAI post describing ChatGPT Work as a shift toward AI completing full workflows across web, mobile, and desktop, generating documents, decks, and reports while the user stays in control.