Episode Details

A quick catch-up on the AI stories shaping strategy, markets, and security to start the week. Today: Europe’s push to build more sovereign AI capacity, Asian model makers using export-control uncertainty as an opening, a research paper on using LLMs to find business-logic vulnerabilities much faster, and three notable headlines on OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 lineup, the widening open-model ecosystem, and an AI assistant hacking challenge.

Covered in this episode:
- Europe’s new urgency around AI sovereignty and why leaders there no longer want to rely on American models
- Asian startups launching Mythos-like alternatives while U.S. export restrictions reshape the market
- A research paper on LLM-driven discovery of business-logic bugs in power-system microservice APIs
- OpenAI’s limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna
- A new roundup arguing the open-model ecosystem is broadening across companies and regions
- What happened when 2,000 people tried to hack an AI assistant by email

Source links:
- WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/europe-is-fed-up-and-wants-its-own-ai/
- TechCrunch: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/27/asian-ai-startups-launch-mythos-like-models-as-anthropics-export-ban-drags-on/
- DOI research paper: https://doi.org/10.1186/s44147-026-01100-9
- Simon Willison on GPT-5.6: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/openai/#atom-everything
- Interconnects open artifacts #22: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/artifacts-22-zyphra-cohere-and-poolside
- Simon Willison on the AI assistant hack challenge: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/26/hack-my-ai-assistant/#atom-everything