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Google fires the engineer behind its Workspace CLI tool, OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 with three new model tiers, and Astro 7 lands with a full Rust rewrite. Plus: Coinbase cuts token costs with smarter routing, and more in this week’s Syntax Live

Show Notes

00:00 Intro

00:34 Welcome to Syntax!

01:46 Google fires Workspace CLI Creator

12:30 GPT 5.6 Is Coming

19:59 GLM 5.2 Released

23:23 Astro 7 Rust Re-write

32:46 Cursor Announces iOS App

35:08 Scott’s Workflow: Herdr + Mosh + Termius + Tailscale

40:33 Coinbase Reduces AI Cost with Model Routing

44:22 wayfinder-router - Local AI Routing CLI

48:16 Token efficiency in models and harnesses

Martin Woodward on X

52:34 performativeUI - react components for AI startups

54:31 Brought to you by Sentry.io

55:21 Reachy Mini Robot

01:02:21 FUTO Keyboard Swipe for Android

01:05:40 CSS Quake

01:07:35 HTML Invoker API is Baseline Available

01:13:17 Cloudflare Temporary Accounts for AI Agents

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