GPT-5.6 Needs Government Approval Now, npm Finally Gets More Security, and Fable Returns
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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Cold open: npm finally freezes accounts
Welcome
GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna — and government-gated access
OpenAI's Jalapeño chip
Open models: Qwen AgentWorld, DeepSeek, Hermes MoA
AI SDK 7
Devin Fusion & the model-routing wave
Harness interop: OpenCode & LangChain
Tau harness
Claude Tag's viral moment & the Trojan horse
Open Tag
Voice agents land on Vercel
The infra bill: Coinbase on keeping AI spend flat
Exa Connect & a16z's $200M "seed"
npm freezes accounts
Meta's Brain2Qwerty: think-to-text
Google fired its viral CLI star
Fable returns
Outro
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