A former Federal Reserve chair joins Anthropic's oversight body, Meta begins charging developers for its frontier model, and OpenAI discovers its flagship coding benchmark is 30 percent fiction.
Former Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke has joined Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, the independent body charged with holding the company to its public interest mission. His appointment adds macroeconomic credibility to a trust that has historically leaned toward security and policy backgrounds.
Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal reasoning model with a one-million-token context window built for agentic tasks. The accompanying Meta Model API marks the first time Meta has charged developers for access to a frontier model.
Alongside the GPT-5.6 family, OpenAI released ChatGPT Work, an agentic workspace that connects to files and applications to complete coding, research, and document tasks from a single interface rather than prompting them piecemeal.
OpenAI's research team found that roughly a third of questions in a widely-used coding evaluation contain errors, ambiguities, or outright bad tests, meaning model scores on that benchmark have been meaningfully overstated. They published guidance on separating signal from noise in coding evals.
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of Applications, stepped down from her full-time role to become a part-time advisor after three months of medical leave for postural tachycardia syndrome. She had been the company's most senior product-and-business operator since joining from Instacart.
Google updated its Ads Terms of Service to require disclosure when AI tools create or edit any advertisement. Labels are applied automatically when Google's own AI generates ad elements; advertisers using external AI tools toggle the disclosure manually.
Investors in Manus, the AI agent startup Meta acquired for roughly two billion dollars, are reportedly in discussions about reversing the deal, with Tencent emerging as a potential buyer of the stake. An unwind would unravel one of the largest agent-company acquisitions to date.