🏛️ White House limits OpenAI's GPT-5.6 release

📊 California launches first state AI job-loss tracker

🤖 Claude's paying consumers jumped 75% since January

💸 Hackers stole $3M from Polymarket users

🔌 IBM unveils the world's smallest chip technology

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The Trump administration asked OpenAI to release GPT-5.6 only to a small group of government-approved partners first, citing security concerns. Officials will approve access customer by customer before any wider launch.

Both OpenAI and the White House view GPT-5.6 as on par with Anthropic's Mythos, the frontier model Anthropic pulled this month after a Commerce export order over cybersecurity fears.

Altman told staff this setup is not OpenAI's preferred long-term model, even as the company accepted it. The first government-gated AI launch arrived with the launcher already grumbling about the gate.

California launched the nation's first public dashboard tracking AI-related job losses, built with the California Policy Lab at UCLA and the state's Employment Development Department. It updates monthly and anyone can view the data.

The tracker pairs unemployment claims with AI-exposure scores by region, age, education, and gender. So far it found no statewide layoff surge, though claims stay elevated for college-educated workers in AI-exposed Bay Area jobs.

Researchers warn the tool can't prove AI caused any specific layoff, since other economic factors muddy the data. It also helps Newsom, a likely 2028 presidential contender, look proactive on AI.

Credit-card analytics firm Indagari found Claude's paying consumers and revenue up roughly 75% since January, drawing on transactions from 28 million US shoppers. ChatGPT still dwarfs Claude on total paying users.

A second signal backs the trend: education platform DataCamp says "Claude" has overtaken "AI" as its most searched term, and consumer demand for Claude courses now outpaces ChatGPT three to one.

The momentum held even through Anthropic's public clashes with Washington, including a June ban that forced it to pull two models. Picking fights with the government has not slowed the sign-ups.

Polymarket confirmed that hackers compromised a third-party vendor and injected malicious code into its website frontend, draining funds from some users. The company says it contained the incident and is refunding everyone affected.

Blockchain monitors PeckShield and Specter estimate hackers stole roughly $3 million in pUSD, Polymarket's stablecoin, from more than 11 wallets, then swapped it for ETH. Polymarket declined to confirm a figure.

The attack hit Polymarket's frontend, not its core contracts, so the platform's own code held up. The timing stings though, landing days after a report that Polymarket paid creators to fake winning bets.

IBM unveiled what it calls the world's first sub-1 nanometer chip technology, packing nearly 100 billion transistors onto a fingernail-sized chip, roughly double the density of its 2-nanometer chip from 2021.

IBM's new "nanostack" design stacks transistors vertically instead of shrinking them sideways. The company projects up to 50% more performance or 70% better energy efficiency than its 2-nanometer generation.

The "0.7 nanometer" label is a marketing name, not a real measurement, and IBM doesn't even make commercial chips. These are projections for a product that won't ship for five to ten years.

A) Yes - 51% 🏆

B) No - 49%