Anthropic

OpenAI doubled its API pricing this week, released a model that scores 82.7% on Terminal Bench and tops every major intelligence composite, then watched its CEO call his main competitor a bomb salesman on a podcast. Anthropic, meanwhile, confirmed that unauthorized users accessed Mythos, the model they spent weeks marketing as too dangerous to release. Four things actually changed this week. Three of them were worth the hype. GPT 5.5 Stopped Asking Me for Instructions GPT 5.5 is live inside ChatGPT and Codex for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users. The benchmark story is straightforward: 82.7% on Terminal Bench, clearing Mythos at 82%, Claude Opus at 69.4%, and GPT 5.4 at 75%. On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, a composite of ten benchmarks across reasoning, coding, science, and agents, 5.5 is now the standalone leader after a three-way tie between Opus 4.7, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and GPT 5.4. ...

The optimistic version of artificial general intelligence is not hard to imagine. A world where disease gets solved faster, energy is abundant, and human labor shifts toward things humans actually want to do. Gene Roddenberry built a franchise on that premise. The technology trajectory Altman describes follows a logical endpoint: compounding capability with no ceiling in sight. The destination is fine. The transition is where the damage happens. The Operator in the Room Altman’s role at OpenAI is operational: he decides when to ship. In 2022, OpenAI’s leadership was debating whether to release ChatGPT at all, arguing for a more powerful version. Altman pushed to go. ChatGPT launched in November 2022 and reached 800 million weekly users. The timing was his call. ...