GPT-5.5 Beats Fable, Cursor Takes On GitHub & Midjourney Scans Your Body | This Week in AI
Fable is gone, and the race to replace it is already on. Shane and Abhi open with the fallout — reports that Mythos breached classified NSA systems, the ID-verification future that may follow, and David Sacks' "you asked for it" take. Then the story flips: OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Cyber lands state-of-the-art on Cyber Gym, beating Fable and Mythos on the underlying benchmarks, with OpenAI Daybreak shipping alongside it. GPT-5.6 leaks, then slips to mid-July. GLM 5.2 arrives near Opus 4.8, tops Design Arena, and runs on a Mac. Cursor goes after GitHub with Origin, adds mobile and its own frontier model on Colossus after the SpaceX deal closes. Vercel ships Eve, Fred Schott counters with Flue, Claude lands in Slack, and Midjourney — yes, the image company — unveils a full-body medical scanner headed for spas.
Episode Transcript
Cold open
Welcome
Fable fallout: did Mythos breach the NSA?
GPT-5.5 Cyber beats Fable & OpenAI Daybreak
GPT-5.6 delayed, Gemini 3.5 Pro slips
GLM 5.2: near-Opus, and it runs on a Mac
Subscribe break
Cursor's Origin takes on GitHub
Cursor mobile, frontier model & the SpaceX deal
Vercel's Eve, Flue & Codex skills
Claude Tag & Replit in Slack
Midjourney goes medical: full-body scanners
Sakana Fugu & the rise of model routing
Outro
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