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

Cloudflare buys Void0, Google buying up compute from xAI, and Claude seems to be getting more anxious so we're here to break down everything this week on another episode of Nerd Snipe!

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Sources:

• https://x.com/vite_js/status/2062525206158078047
• https://x.com/EdLudlow/status/2062970770612199542
• https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/2063099050719846719
• https://www.reddit.com/r/EconomyCharts/comments/1lp34n4/china_vs_us_energy/
• https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1963443919150330139
• https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2062568862479208923
• https://x.com/HSVSphere/status/2060396271756595666
• https://x.com/theo/status/2061018426152530232
• https://x.com/Teknium/status/2062522290504613944

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01:58 Cloudflare vs Vercel

13:03 Convex angle

19:59 SpaceX compute

35:49 AI self-improvement

44:45 Article reactions

50:28 Claude anxiety

57:42 Guardrails

01:08:21 Cursed image gen

01:19:18 Hermes agents

Opus 4.8 + a ton of new stuff in Claude Code dropped this week, and we actually kinda like it. There's also a new benchmark that's actually good, and we have a lot of thoughts about the future of these AI labs...

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SOURCES

• https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8
• https://x.com/theo/status/2060120708815139241
• https://x.com/Baconbrix/status/2060065875911422343
• ⁠https://x.com/zoink/status/2060769829133721974
• https://x.com/maria_rcks/status/2060937270824153251
• https://x.com/_catwu/status/2060054180379689074
• https://x.com/datacurve/status/2060834005998793199
• https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/
• https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/blog#results
• https://github.com/scaleapi/SWE-agent/blob/402a7b8fdac8193f3f255bb53859ba274234f596/config/benchmarks/anthropic_filemap_multilingual.yaml
• https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/
• https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2060061347522433422
• https://x.com/theo/status/2060199299632472494
• https://x.com/theo/status/2060901326058561795
• https://x.com/38twelveDaily/status/2060408696945975631

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00:00 - Shower Thoughts

02:44 - Deep SWE Benchmark

10:45 - Opus vs GPT-5.5

19:57 - Anthropic’s Huge Raise

25:39 - Token Maxing

40:02 - AI Slot Machine

43:49 - Claude Code Friction

50:01 - Opus, Mythos, and Safety

Not only did Google accidentally ban Railway's account, but their new flagship model Gemini 3.5 Flash is absurdly bad. Oh and apparently Theo's building his own cloud...

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SOURCES

⁠https://x.com/theo/status/2057359424378097823⁠

⁠https://x.com/JustJake/status/2056881510939283776⁠

⁠https://x.com/KorduGG/status/2059141337895604626⁠

⁠https://x.com/unboringtech/status/2059144145273491610⁠

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Gemini fallout

05:21 - Video gen

10:10 - Google Cloud

14:04 - Windsurf/Cursor

25:10 - Manus/Meta

30:00 - China lock-in

35:00 - Cursor/xAI

45:00 - Cloud workflows

50:32 - Lakebed

65:22 - Hermes/security

Peter, the creator of openclaw is apparently going through $1,300,000 worth of tokens every month. Seems like we're not using nearly enough tokens. Oh and the security psychosis is getting worse. (Anthropic is being bad again too)

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Intro

02:44 - Token Spend

06:47 - Token Future

12:12 - Secure Agents

22:50 - Anthropic Rules

31:35 - Security

39:36 - Token Tax

49:49 - AI Psychosis

59:47 - macOS

01:01:43 - AI Video

Anthropic seems to have finally solved their compute problems (kinda) by buying it from Elon, the security problem is getting so much worse, and apparently Bun's getting re-written in rust?

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Sources/references:

https://x.com/claudeai/status/2052060691893227611

https://openai.com/index/elon-musk-wanted-an-openai-for-profit/#december-2018-elon-told-us-to-raise-billions-per-year-immediately-or-forget-it

https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2053391824702898475

https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2051595933704761618

https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2053047748191232310

https://ze3tar.github.io/post-zcrx.html

https://www.jefftk.com/p/ai-is-breaking-two-vulnerability-cultures

https://x.com/thdxr/status/2053570581807722968

https://x.com/badlogicgames/status/2052691176373805534 https://x.com/garrytan/status/2052996691586932783

TIMESTAMPS

00:00:00 - Anthropic/xAI00:08:59 - OpenAI Lawsuit00:25:40 - Bun in Rust00:34:34 - Security00:59:28 - Pottery Coding01:11:11 - Local Models