Image: Created with ChatGPT From GPT-5.5 and Google’s agentic AI push to fresh chip ambitions, humanoid robots, major breaches, and corporate turmoil, this week showed how the tech industry’s race for intelligence is also becoming a race for control — over data, infrastructure, workers, and users. Top news OpenAI and Google push the boundaries of AI OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.5, its most advanced model yet, achieving 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 and surpassing Anthropic’s Mythos preview. The model introduces a “Thinking” mode, improved efficiency, and Trusted Access for Cyber controls, running on NVIDIA GB200/GB300 hardware. It’s available across ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers, with API access coming soon. Meanwhile, Google rebranded Vertex AI as the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next, offering a suite for building and managing autonomous office bots.…