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Policy Anthropic forced to disable Fable 5 & Mythos 5 over US export controls on foreign nationals Funding Apollo & Blackstone close $35B SPV to finance Anthropic's Google TPU acquisition, largest chip-backed debt deal Chips Samsung & NVIDIA deepen foundry partnership; LP40 Groq chip, HBM4E/HBM5 next-gen memory on roadmap Chips GlobalFoundries launches SCALE silicon photonics platform for AI interconnects, first OCI MSA-capable CPO Funding Ineffable Intelligence closes Europe's largest seed at $1.1B, $5.1B valuation, led by Sequoia & Lightspeed Breaking OpenAI launches Partner Network with $150M backing, targets 300K certified consultants by year-end Chips GlobalFoundries SCALE co-packaged optics hits OCI MSA standard for AI data centers Policy Anthropic forced to disable Fable 5 & Mythos 5 over US export controls on foreign nationals Funding Apollo & Blackstone close $35B SPV to finance Anthropic's Google TPU acquisition, largest chip-backed debt deal Chips Samsung & NVIDIA deepen foundry partnership; LP40 Groq chip, HBM4E/HBM5 next-gen memory on roadmap Chips GlobalFoundries launches SCALE silicon photonics platform for AI interconnects, first OCI MSA-capable CPO Funding Ineffable Intelligence closes Europe's largest seed at $1.1B, $5.1B valuation, led by Sequoia & Lightspeed Breaking OpenAI launches Partner Network with $150M backing, targets 300K certified consultants by year-end Chips GlobalFoundries SCALE co-packaged optics hits OCI MSA standard for AI data centers

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GPT-5.5

OpenAI's flagship reasoning model — third on GPQA-Diamond at 93.5 — and the model behind the recent enterprise pricing reset (2× per-token vs GPT-5.4) plus the Codex CLI subscription bundle.

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