Episode Details

A two-launch Thursday for AI and go-to-market. Host Jack King covers the six stories that moved revenue and GTM teams today — a frontier price war breaking out in a single day, advertising data finally reaching AI search, agents burrowing into product data and hitting a security wall, and a compliance deadline three weeks out.

Today's stories:

• OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 as three tiers — Sol, Terra, Luna — with Sol on Cerebras at ~750 tokens/sec. Source
• xAI / SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5 publicly — Opus-class, ~50% cheaper, 500K context. Source, Yahoo
• Guideline extends Verified Ad Intelligence to AI platforms (ChatGPT, Perplexity). Source
• Akeneo introduces Agentic Ziggy for product-data orchestration. Source
• MCP security reckoning: NSA hardening guidance + Amazon Q auto-exec vulnerability; final MCP spec due July 28. Source, Wiz/Amazon Q
• EU AI Act Article 50 transparency rules enforceable Aug 2; code signatory deadline July 22. Source, Sidley

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