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GPT-5.6 Needs Government Approval Now, npm Finally Gets More Security, and Fable Returns

July 2, 2026

GPT-5.6 is here — Sol, Terra, and Luna — but for the first time, the US government decides who gets access, approving customers one by one. Shane and Abhi dig into what that precedent means for competition, open models, and every lab that comes next.

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Episode Transcript

00:00

Cold open: npm finally freezes accounts

00:29

Welcome

00:37

GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna — and government-gated access

04:25

OpenAI's Jalapeño chip

05:34

Open models: Qwen AgentWorld, DeepSeek, Hermes MoA

07:11

AI SDK 7

07:43

Devin Fusion & the model-routing wave

10:26

Harness interop: OpenCode & LangChain

11:01

Tau harness

11:26

Claude Tag's viral moment & the Trojan horse

12:49

Open Tag

13:12

Voice agents land on Vercel

13:53

The infra bill: Coinbase on keeping AI spend flat

15:15

Exa Connect & a16z's $200M "seed"

16:32

npm freezes accounts

18:08

Meta's Brain2Qwerty: think-to-text

19:11

Google fired its viral CLI star

21:48

Fable returns

22:00

Outro