Five things I noticed this week: GPT-5.6, Gemini Robotics 2, and GitHub stacked PRs

OpenAI released GPT-5.6 with a stronger focus on price-performance.

DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics 2 for better whole-body robot coordination in unstructured environments.

GitHub opened stacked pull requests in public preview to improve code review workflows.

A widely discussed essay argued that LLM-assisted coding delivers closer to 2x productivity gains than 10x leaps.

Kedge proposed a new cloud runtime concept built around forkable VM snapshots and SQLite as a distributed primitive.