AI News Roundup 5 to 18 July, 2026: GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5 and More
Two weeks rarely reshape an entire industry, but the stretch between July 5 and July 18, 2026, came close. OpenAI cleared a government review process to put GPT-5.6 in front of the public, xAI answered with Grok 4.5 the very next day, and Meta, Anthropic, NVIDIA, and Google all pushed out announcements that touched everything…
