This week: Apple sued OpenAI for trade secret theft. 400+ former Apple engineers now at OpenAI. The complaint drops right as OpenAI is preparing its IPO. Brutal timing. Also covered: Chinese AI models now own 30 to 46% of enterprise API token usage. GPT-5.6 launched. Gemini 3.5 Pro drops July 17. Fable 5 is now credits-only and the bill is real. Plus both articles from this week and three infographics. Full edition here: neonaliensai.substack.com/p/this-week-in-ai-d2c Not subscribed yet? Link in the community description.

The AI Audit: What to Cut, Keep, and Rebuild. Most founders have no idea what is actually running in their AI stack. Ghost workflows billing you daily. Bloated prompts burning compute. Models doing jobs a fraction of their size could handle. Vega and Axon walk through the four steps to fix it before pricing shifts force your hand. Go check it out in the classroom. 👽

Most founders are losing on number 3 and have no idea. Which one is your biggest struggle right now?

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