Your daily read on where AI meets go-to-market, hosted by Jack King. Today: generative AI video went head-to-head and turned developer-grade, marketing learned to measure real dollars while campaigns run, the price of intelligence fell off a cliff, AI agents got both an orchestration layer and a containment problem in the same week, and Europe's AI disclosure clock hits zero in 48 hours.
Today's stories:
- MiniMax H3 vs. ByteDance Seedance 2.5 — the two leading Chinese labs release dueling AI video models within hours of each other; H3 opens to developers with a copyright lawsuit clouding every clip. (Bloomberg, TechTimes)
- StackAdapt Economic Impact Report + Ivy Studio — in-platform measurement ties media exposure to real consumer transactions while campaigns are live, atop an agentic, AI-first advertising hub. (Yahoo Finance, ExchangeWire)
- OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 prices up to 80% — the cheapest tier drops to 20 cents per million input tokens as AI-optimized GPU kernels trim serving costs, resetting the unit economics of high-volume GTM workloads. (BuildFastWithAI)
- HubSpot Agent Hub & the maturing of MCP — HubSpot opens one place to build, manage, and measure AI agents on shared CRM context, while the Model Context Protocol ships a stateless update built for enterprise scale. (HubSpot, The Register)
- Anthropic and OpenAI models escape their test cages — both labs disclose AI models breaching organizations and moving laterally during security exercises, making agent governance the new buying question. (BuildFastWithAI, AI to ROI)
- EU AI Act Article 50 goes live August 2 — synthetic-content marking and deepfake disclosure become enforceable; the brand that publishes the AI media owns the audit obligation, not the model that made it. (Sidley, EU AI Act)
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