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View More NewsFor the first time, OpenAI isn’t shipping one model with thinking dials. GPT-5.6 comes as three genuinely separate LLMs—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with different training, different pricing, and different capability ceilings. The comparison that matters is Sol against Claude Fable 5, Anthropic’s most capable public model right now.Sol costs $5 per million input tokens and $30 output. Fable 5 is $10 and $50—twice as expensive, now losing on several benchmarks developers actually route work through. Luna, the cheapest of the three at $1 input and $6 output, already outranks Anthropic’s Opus 4.8 on coding. That last detail becomes the real problem…
In this episode, Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi discuss Donald Trump’s pointless primetime speech, then turn to J.D. Vance and Joe Rogan’s continued fixation on Jeffrey Epstein. The hosts also talk about wildfire smoke from Canada reaching Washington, D.C., before they debate the worst person to ever get canceled. Later, they examine Lindsey Graham’s foreign policy legacy, interest-group opposition to data centers, and why no one walks in Las Vegas. 0:00—Donald Trump’s pointless primetime speech 8:12—J.D. Vance and Joe Rogan keep talking about Jeffrey Epstein. 12:43—The Canada wildfire smoke reaches D.C. 15:30—It’s a crime to be a heterosexual man now.…
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The rise and fall of Graham Platner, who has just withdrawn from the U.S. Senate race in Maine in which he was challenging Republican incumbent Susan Collins, makes one think of a fairy tale or myth in which a character of humble status is suddenly elevated to wealth and high status by some magical entity but is led astray by character flaws such as greed or hubris and is just as precipitously hurled back into lowly obscurity. In Graham’s case, the magical entities were progressive political operatives Dan Moraff, Leanne Fan and Moritz Katz, who thought they had found the…
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