One sentence in, lettered comic pages out — a local LLM writes the script, your GPU draws every panel with the same character in the same style, and an open-source compositor adds bubbles, SFX, and diagonal panel cuts. Tool included.
Week of 13 July: GPT-5.6 lands everywhere, Shanghai AI Lab drops an Apache agent brain, the voice race goes full-duplex, LongCat posts absurd numbers, robots get free eyes — and Fable 5 dodges retirement again.
Everything from our first news episode in readable form: the mystery model that topped OpenRouter, Claude Fable 5’s return (and reprieve), GPT-5.6’s rollout, Suno opening its API, and our own lab report.