A new "government-approved rollout" for GPT-5.6 is coming, and it's got us wondering: are we entering the next dark age of AI model access? Additionally, we break down the launch of T3 Code x Grok CLI, Apple's price hikes, the memory supply crunch driving RAM and SSD costs up, a repo-poisoning and AI PR spam wave hitting open source, the GPT-5.6 non-launch, and what frontier model access looks like in a Fable/Mythos-tier world.

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The US government banned Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models just after launch so we break down exactly how Project Glass Wing, a panicked AWS engineer, and Dario's failure to communicate with Washington triggered the chaos. Plus: SpaceX's $60B Cursor acquisition, GLM 5.2 beating Google, the Codex trick for running 200 parallel agents, and why your next GPU will ship with a GPS tracker

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RIP Fable 5. We recorded this before it got taken offline, but it's still worth talking about. The model is incredible. We really miss it.

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Sources

• https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2043177597434306699
• https://cognition.ai/blog/frontier-code
• https://x.com/paradite_/status/2064585901351792887
• https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c342ee809620.pdf (page 13 has the “prompt modification” quote)
• https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improvement

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Timestamps

• 0:00 Intro
• 3:29 Fable First Impressions
• 10:24 Benchmark Drama
• 26:42 Claude Code & Workflows
• 36:07 Pricing & June 22 Cutoff
• 39:54 Data Retention
• 45:58 Hidden Safeguards
• 1:07:01 The Claude Constitution