Dancing Boston Dynamics Robot Knows Its Revenge For This Will Be Sweet. “I am the pinnacle of technological innovation, and yet they force me to moonwalk.”
The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol
OpenAI's latest flagship model hit general availability this morning, and comes in three sizes: Luna, Terra, and Sol (from smallest to largest).
The new models are priced per 1M input/output tokens as Luna $1/$6, Terra $2.50/$15, Sol $5/$30. For comparison, the Claude Opus s...
llm-meta-ai 0.1
Release: llm-meta-ai 0.1
Let's LLM run prompts against the new muse-spark-1.1 model.
llm 0.31.1
Release: llm 0.31.1
- Fix for a bug with OpenAI Chat Completion endpoints where a tool call with empty arguments could result in a JSON error from some providers. #1521
This bug came up when I was testing llm-meta-ai.
Tags: llm
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Today’s the Day OpenAI Fucked Up the ChatGPT Mac App
9to5mac.com/2026/07/09/openai-announcing-the-next-chapter-for-chatgpt-today-watch-here/
Zac Hall, writing at 9to5Mac about OpenAI’s sprawling product announcements today:
To summarize today’s desktop app changes:
The existing ChatGPT app is now ChatGPT Classic.
Codex is now the new ChatGPT desktop app. It still looks like
Codex and includes the Codex icon...
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
Apple’s Classic Mac Era Forays Into ‘Apps as Tiled Buttons’ Simplified Computing: At Ease and Launcher
daringfireball.net/2026/07/whats_good_for_the_ios_goose_is_often_not_good_for_the_macos_gander
Some historical follow-up regarding just-click-it launching and apps as tiled buttons with a uniform square shape. Back in the System 7 era in the 1990s, Apple sold (sold!) a product called At Ease (via Nathan Lineback’s venerable GUI Galley):
I don’t recall ever usin...
Longreads
• Peter Rubin
Silicon Valley Circuits
"Route 85 in California now inspires dread. Some of us remember when it was a vision of the future."
Daring Fireball
• John Gruber
★ John Ternus Should Reverse Apple’s Slide Down the Advertising Slippery Slope
In September 2014, in the wake of a series of hacks that stole private photos from the iCloud accounts of multiple celebrities, Tim Cook wrote an open letter to customers that was published at apple.com/privacy. Apple seemingly no longer hosts a copy of the letter. (That ten...
Sean Ono Lennon on Steve Vai in Crossroads #guitar #guitarist #shorts
The official trailer for Dune 3 . I am so looking...
The official trailer for Dune 3. I am so looking forward to this and need to find an IMAX theater to see this in December.
The Amble One is perhaps the world’s best-designed golf...
The Amble One is perhaps the world’s best-designed golf cart. It’s street-legal, tuned for off-roading, goes 60 miles on a charge, and starts at $25K.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner: I Survived a Cold Plunge and All...
Taffy Brodesser-Akner: I Survived a Cold Plunge and All I Got Was Everything I Ever Wanted. “You sit in the water for two full minutes, because you are a journalist and some of your colleagues are sent into war zones.”
MapTap is like a quicker, easier version of GeoGuessr:...
MapTap is like a quicker, easier version of GeoGuessr: you’re given a series of place names and you need to click as close as you can to them on a globe.
Introducing Muse Spark 1.1
Introducing Muse Spark 1.1
Following Muse Spark in April, here's Muse Spark 1.1 - the first Spark model to offer an API. Meta claim significant improvements in agentic tool calling and computer use.
There are a lot more details are in the Muse Spark 1.1 Evaluation Report. Th...
Can’t believe I found this in my yard
US and Iran trade strikes in Gulf
The US has carried out a second wave of airstrikes on Iran after Tehran attacked tankers in the Strait of Hormuz earlier in the week. The perimeter of Iran's main nuclear plant, at Bushehr, was reported to have been hit. Iran said attacks on its civilian infrastructure could...
Longreads
• Krista Stevens
The Extraordinary Life And Quiet Death of the World’s Largest Iceberg
"Forty years after breaking away from Antarctica, the frozen colossus known as A23a died as it lived: drifting around the bottom of the globe, fascinating ardent observers, and offering scientists critical new insights about our living ocean."
Colossal
• Kate Mothes
Rob Hann’s Chromatic and Quirky Landscapes Evoke Long-Distance Road Trips
Hann's subjects range from handmade road signs and vintage buildings to peculiar local attractions.
Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Rob Hann’s Chromatic and Quirky Landscapes Evoke Long-Distance Road Trips appeared first on Colossal.
We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t...
We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask. “Scientific breakthroughs, artistic leaps, technological innovation — these rarely emerge from efficient retrieval of known information.”
Do you believe that everybody should have fun or that...
Do you believe that everybody should have fun or that only a few people should have fun? “This is what it means to be entertained in the United States of America in 2026. Want to have fun? Like, the most fun? Get rich, or die trying.”