This week in AI had the strange feeling of a stack trace resolving itself. For years, the industry has been marching toward the same destination from different directions: better models, richer environments, more autonomous agents, and harder evaluations. This week, those threads snapped together into something legible. AI is no longer just learning to answer. It is learning to act. Start with OpenAI's GPT-5.6 release. Or more precisely, its limited preview. The naming alone tells a story: Sol, Terra, Luna. A flagship model, a balanced model, and a fast, cheaper model. The product taxonomy is becoming planetary because the market is no longer asking for 'the best model' in the abstract. It wants intelligence at different temperatures: deep reasoning for frontier work, affordable competence for everyday automation, and high-throughput inference for systems that need to move fast. But the most interesting part of GPT-5.6 is not the benchmark curve. It is the release shape. This is a...
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