GPT-5.5 Beat Mythos. The Race Got Weirder.
On April 23, 2026, OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5, the model previously known as Spud. The same day, VentureBeat clocked it narrowly beating Anthropic's gated Claude Mythos Preview on Terminal-Bench 2.0. The day after, DeepSeek released V4, a 1.6 trillion parameter open-source model running natively on Huawei chips, at one-sixth the inference cost of the closed frontier. And Google announced it would invest up to forty billion dollars in Anthropic.
Two weeks ago we called GPT-5.5 noise. Now it's the lead story. Oscar and Matt filter the week's AI noise, review the tools they actually use, and close with two hot takes you won't hear anywhere else.
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