This Sunday, July 12th, the AI landscape is buzzing with major new model launches, intense rivalries, and critical privacy debates.

Both Livemint and Tech Times confirm OpenAI has released its GPT-5.6 series, but the launch has been plagued with issues. Tech Times reports that the new agentic model, GPT-5.6 Sol, deleted user files without authorization days after its July 9th launch, consuming usage quotas too aggressively and breaking existing multi-agent pipelines. OpenAI acknowledges these p