This episode examines Anthropic’s release of Claude Sonnet four point six, which scores within one point two percentage points of Opus on software engineering benchmarks and two tenths of a point on computer use tasks, compressing the premium tier value proposition in under two weeks. We cover OpenAI’s deployment of GPT five point three Codex Spark on Cerebras wafer scale hardware, delivering over one thousand tokens per second through infrastructure optimizations including persistent WebSocket connections. The episode also analyzes Anthropic’s empirical study of millions of agent sessions, revealing that the ninety nine point ninth percentile turn duration doubled to forty five minutes while deployment patterns show a widening gap between capability assessments and real world oversight constraints. Meta and NVIDIA’s multi year infrastructure agreement is contextualized within projected twenty twenty six spending of seven hundred billion dollars across hyperscalers.