THE AI INDUSTRY AS YOU KNOW IT DIED TODAY

Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter

The US government now effectively decides who gets access to the newest frontier model. OpenAI's GPT-5.6 is rolling out consumer by consumer under government approval, right after Anthropic was forced to pull a model entirely. This quietly turns access and governance into the scarce thing, just as Chinese labs ship their best models openly to anyone. If it holds, where you can even get capability starts to matter as much as how good it is.