GPT-5.5 Drops, Google’s $200B AI Bet, and the Real Cost of AI Agents

This week brought some absolute bangers in AI news. OpenAI quietly dropped GPT-5.5 Instant as the new ChatGPT default, promising fewer hallucinations and better personalization. Meanwhile, Google is reportedly securing a mind-blowing $200 billion commitment from Anthropic for cloud spending over five years. We're also diving into some fascinating technical developments: why using AI agents to control computers through screenshots might be burning 45x more money than you need to spend, Apple's plans to let you pick your own AI models in iOS 27, and Google's new way of thinking about hallucinations that actually makes sense. Plus, Meta's building something wild with their Muse Spark assistant, and we've got some real talk about what it actually takes to scale these models. Grab your coffee, because there's a lot to unpack.