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Summary:

I want to talk about something that's been bothering me for weeks now. GPT 5.6 just landed, and it's not coming to you or me. It's going straight to a vetted list approved by the US government, the same thing that happened to Claude Mythos and Fable not long before it. In this one I break down what's actually in the GPT 5.6 release, how Sol and Terra compare to Mythos on the benchmarks that matter, and why the real question in 2026 isn't whether a model is smart anymore. Every model is smart now. The question is whether you're allowed to use it.

Then I get into what to actually do about it. I cover open source alternatives like GLM and Gemma, why running a model locally on your own machine has gone from a nerdy side project to a genuinely sensible backup plan, and how to start spreading your dependence across more than one provider before the next lockdown happens. If you run a business on any of these tools, this is the part you really shouldn't skip.

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0:00 Why I'm Disillusioned With AI for the First Time 0:51 AI Lockdowns: Fable Banned & GPT-5.6 Restricted 2:52 Meet GPT-5.6: Sol, Terra & Luna Model Family 4:16 Too Dangerous to Release: The US Government Steps In 5:44 The Benchmarks: Just as Powerful, Far More Efficient 8:39 The Real Threat: Bioweapons & Hacking Banks 9:10 The Permission Era: A New Digital Divide 10:11 The Fix: Open Weights & Open Source 10:48 Chinese Open Source Models: GLM 5.2 Max 11:41 Run Powerful AI Locally on Your Own Machine 13:12 Dario Amodei's Crusade Against Open Source 13:56 How to Set Up Local Models on Your Devices 14:27 Don't Depend on One Model (or One Country) 15:53 The New Question: Do You Even Have Access? 16:51 IPO Fallout & Final Thoughts

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Today I'm tackling the problem nearly everyone using AI seriously eventually hits: your tools don't talk to each other. ChatGPT on your phone has no idea what Claude Code did on your desktop, and Codex on your laptop is working blind to both. I walk through how to build a vendor agnostic AI vault, a shared brain made of simple markdown files that any tool can read, so your context stops getting lost between apps. I show you how to get an AI to interview you and build the entire folder structure for you, no technical setup required, and where GitHub and Obsidian actually fit into the picture (hint: Obsidian is for you, not the AI).

If you've seen those gorgeous Obsidian graph diagrams floating around and felt like you were missing something, this clears it up. I explain why the vault, not Obsidian, is the actual brain, why GitHub is the smartest way to sync it across devices, and how to keep growing the system over time so it gets more useful the more you use it. Whether you're juggling client projects, personal life admin or a dozen half finished side builds, this gives every AI tool you use the same source of truth.

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0:00 The Problem: Your AI Tools Don't Share Memory 0:36 The Obsidian Vault Hype, Explained Simply 1:30 Why Your AI Context Is Scattered in 2026 2:39 What Is a Markdown File? 4:17 How Obsidian Works and Why the Vault Matters More 5:33 Structuring Your Vault: Personal, Business, Projects 6:35 Let the AI Interview You to Build It 7:14 README, AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md Explained 9:13 Use Claude Code or Codex: The Interview Prompt 10:02 Pro Tip: Use a Microphone and Just Talk 10:38 Make It a GitHub Repo for a Durable Vault 11:47 Recap: Obsidian Is Optional, Start Now 12:27 Wrap-Up and Free Newsletter

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The most advanced AI model ever released to the public, Anthropic's Fable 5, was pulled from shelves roughly 48 hours after launch. Not by Anthropic. By the US government, citing national security and export control concerns. The ban applies to all foreign nationals, meaning non-US citizens are locked out entirely. I went through the full timeline on the live: the jailbreak, the Amazon angle, David Sacks' government-side narrative, and why Dario Amodei arguably talked his own model into a ban by spending months telling everyone it was a weapon.

The more interesting question though isn't whether we get Fable back. It's what this reveals about the structure underneath all of it. You don't own your AI access. It's rented land. A government or a boardroom decision and it's gone, sometimes with 90 minutes' notice. In this one I get into what that actually means practically: local models, open source alternatives, the geopolitical chess game between the US and China, and the one skill that matters regardless of which model you're using.

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0:00 Fable & Mythos Banned: What Happened and Why It Matters 0:51 Background: Fable vs Mythos, Project Glasswing & the "Super Weapon" 2:58 Why People Fell in Love With Fable 5 (Expert Reactions) 7:10 The Ban Timeline: Launch, Backlash & the 90-Minute Export Order 9:52 What Triggered the Ban? Speculation & the Enforcement Problem 11:29 The David Sacks Narrative: The Government's Side of the Story 13:50 Pliny Jailbreaks Fable 5 15:15 Anthropic vs the Administration: The Standoff 17:38 The Foreign National Rule & the Digital ID Threat 20:09 Why You Should Learn Local & Open-Source Models (LM Studio Guide) 24:34 Think Bigger: The Real Skill as AI Keeps Improving 25:42 Big Open Questions: China, the IPO & AI Geopolitics 29:00 Newsletter & Webinar: Get Paid to Teach AI

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