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🗞️In this edition

  • GPT-5.6 Ships Today. GPT-6 May Kill It in Weeks.

  • SpaceXAI Releases Grok 4.5, an "Opus-Class" Model

  • The Hidden Feature in Claude That Just Escalated the AI Cold War

  • ⚡ YOUR MOVE For people building the life they want, now.

  • In other AI news –

    • Some AI Startups Aren't Just Growing. They're Accelerating.

    • Two Founders Walked Away From Their First Idea. The Second One Works.

    • The Hedge Funds Replacing Whole Analyst Teams With AI

  • 4 must-try AI tools

The two best AI models have such different personalities that developers are using them against each other. Musk just admitted Grok isn't the best, then made a move that could still win. And China says it found something buried in Claude's code that Anthropic calls an experiment.

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The frontier labs are no longer competing on who's smartest. One wins on brute endurance, one on cheap access, and one just became a weapon in a geopolitical fight it may not control. The AI race stopped being a race between models. It's now a race between strategies, borders, and trust.

And trust, once broken, is the one thing none of them can rebuild with compute.

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