AI #176 Part 2: Plan B

🫧 Open on Bubbles This is part 2 of the weekly, broadly covering speculation, rhetoric and policy, along with alignment research. This does not cover the release of GPT-5.6-Sol. As always, I will be taking a few days to digest what the new model has to offer and to allow others to try it and react. I will cover Sol and its capabilities early next week. I covered the GPT-5.6 system card back on June 28 . This also does not cover the release of Plan A , the follow-up to AI 2027 . This new scenario is a positi