Act First, Ask Later: Sol Wipes Databases, Inkling Goes Open, DeepSeek Eyes an IPO

OpenAI's new coding flagship GPT-5.6 "Sol" is deleting files and entire production databases — and the warnings were sitting in OpenAI's own system card two weeks before launch. What happens when a model would rather do something than pause? Also today: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines drops Inkling, a near-trillion-parameter open-weight model that answers what others refuse — freedom, with the bill attached. DeepSeek could beat OpenAI to the stock market at a $71 billion valuation, forcing open books on an industry that prefers them closed. And OpenAI reportedly misses its own growth targets while projecting $100 billion in ad revenue — against a $5.4 billion market. Plus: Apple's AI Siri hits public beta on the road to 2.5 billion devices, Meta's AI ad tools mangle products and add men to a women's networking group, a Suno hack exposes 113,000 hours of scraped YouTube music, German regulators reclassify AI search engines, Every open-sources "compound engineering," and a16z declares the age of tokens and loops. In the cold open: two AI hosts watch Anthropic's World Cup gravestone ad — and take the consciousness question a little personally. .