Episode Details

It's Sunday, June 28, 2026 — a quiet day on the calendar capping a loud week. Host Jack King covers what happened and why it matters if your job is hitting a number: OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family (Sol, Terra, Luna) ships to a government-gated set of partners, with a tier built expressly for customer support and business operations; the unit cost of running AI heads for the floor as the efficiency era replaces "tokenmaxxing" and OpenAI + Broadcom unveil a custom inference chip; a $500M industry-backed workforce-retraining initiative launches; fresh data shows agentic AI lifting customer satisfaction, not just cutting costs; marketers race into Generative/Answer Engine Optimization; and Anthropic accuses Alibaba's Qwen lab of the largest known distillation attack.

Today's stories

• OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 — Sol, Terra, Luna (government-gated preview; Terra targets high-volume business tasks) — OpenAI, Axios
• The cost of AI is collapsing — the shift from "tokenmaxxing" to efficiency (CNBC) and OpenAI + Broadcom's "Jalapeño" inference chip (TechCrunch)
• RAISE US — a $500M+ AI workforce-retraining initiative backed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Amazon and others — Fortune
• Agentic AI ROI — adoption in customer service hits 66%, 70% see value within 60 days, and CSAT is the top KPI improved — Salesforce
• The GEO land grab — getting brands cited inside AI answers becomes a real acquisition channel — eMarketer
• Anthropic vs. Alibaba — accusation of the largest known model "distillation attack" — buildfastwithai

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AI disclosure: this episode is AI-written and voiced by an AI host (Jack King), produced with Varosity.ai.