They Launched GPT 5.6...(Kinda)
TL;DR
GPT 5.6 is real but inaccessible: OpenAI released system cards for three new models (Soul, Terra, Luna), but access is restricted to roughly 100 government-approved companies while everyone else waits.
Federal government now gates frontier AI: The approval process for accessing new models is controlled by the feds, not the labs, marking a shift from money-based access to politics-based access.
Apple prices surged overnight: Every Apple product line except iPhone saw price increases, with some RAM upgrades doubling from $1,000 to $2,000 and MacBooks jumping nearly $3,000.
Maintainers are fighting back against AI slop: Open-source projects are using poisoned agents.md files and vouch systems to prevent AI agents from spamming repos with low-quality PRs.
T3 Code partnered with xAI's Grok CLI: Theo's open-source agent harness integrated with xAI's CLI team, enabling Composer model access outside of Cursor.
Summary
OpenAI released GPT 5.6 but almost no one can use it, as the federal government now controls which companies get access to frontier models. Meanwhile, Apple jacked up prices across every product line except iPhone, and open-source maintainers are poisoning their repos with hidden files to stop AI agents from flooding them with slop PRs.
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