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Yesterday in AI | 11 July 2026
OpenAI ChatGPT Work Launch, Fidji Simo Steps Down, and Meta Iris Production
The enterprise AI landscape faced an unprecedented double-front realignment this week as software providers deployed autonomous execution agents right as executive leadership structures fractured. This episode breaks down OpenAI's launch of ChatGPT Work, an autonomous agent layer powered by the newly unrestricted GPT-5.6 engine, contrasted sharply with the permanent medical retirement of Applications chief Fidji Simo due to severe POTS complications.
We explore the total restoration of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 following a multi-week infrastructure squeeze and federal export standstill. We analyze Meta's big hardware reveal as their Broadcom-designed Iris inference chip enters mass production to challenge Nvidia's pricing monopoly. Plus, we cover semiconductor giant SK Hynix making its historic debut on the Nasdaq exchange to capture Wall Street's massive hardware rotation, and Italy's data protection authority hammering Character.AI with heavy GDPR sanctions over teenage privacy and age verification failures.
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