Episode Details

Host Jack King on a day the AI vendor and channel map lurched under go-to-market teams: a public model price war, a five-on-two fight over the plumbing for AI agents, a brand-new intent ad channel landing inside the CRM, and generative media getting frictionless just as EU disclosure rules go live. Here's what happened today.

• The model price war goes public — OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 (flagship "Sol," plus half-price "Terra" and fast "Luna") as Anthropic extends free Fable 5 access a second time in a week. Forbes
• Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Snowflake & ServiceNow back a rival agent protocol aimed at Anthropic's MCP. The Information · Build Fast with AI
• ChatGPT Ads integration lands in HubSpot — manage intent-matched campaigns in the CRM; ChatGPT ads hit $100M annualized revenue in six weeks. Orange Marketing · Digital Applied
• OpenAI acquires Northslope's forward-deployed engineers, buying a Palantir-style enterprise sales motion ahead of a reported ~$730B IPO. Build Fast with AI
• Generative media goes one-click — GPT Image 2 + Aleph 2.0 propagate a single frame edit across a whole video, on the heels of GPT-Live full-duplex voice — as EU AI Act Article 50 disclosure becomes enforceable Aug 2. VentureBeat · Article 50
• TSMC sales jump 36% as a "distillation" debate heats up in DC — the volatile compute bill under every GTM AI feature. Bloomberg · Bloomberg

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