The Token Monopoly Breaks at the Desk
2026-07-07 Daily Report — GPT-5.6 split into three tiers so a workload can pick its own price, the RL crowd admitted that a better-trained model can ship a worse one, and GPU hours started trading like a commodity — the cost of intelligence stopped being a property of the model and became a property of the system around it, and whoever owns the router owns the bill