Fed minutes: several officials said cooling inflation could allow rates to be held steady or cut.

OpenAI will publicly release its most powerful model, GPT-5.6, on Thursday after a US request delayed last month’s planned launch on national security grounds; the model had been available only to vetted partners and its details shared with US authorities. Washington has tightened scrutiny of advanced model releases amid a global race to build frontier AI and warnings these systems could accelerate cyberattacks on complex legacy networks. ANTHROPIC disabled MYTHOS 5 and Fable 5 for all users on June 12 under a US export-control order; those restrictions were lifted last week after ANTHROPIC implemented safeguards. SpaceXAI said it will release Grok 4.5 the same day.

Hungarian Prime Minister Magyar said he held talks with Ukrainian President Zelenskiy and they agreed to hold a bilateral meeting in the near future.