AI shifted into agent products, inflation trades, oversight and labor evidence.

HotTea: The AI Morning Briefing · Aug 13, 2026 · 7m · transcript

SpaceX AI shipped Grok 4.6 into a faster agent-product cycle, July CPI gave markets room to buy AI infrastructure again, the White House's frontier-model framework moved toward open-model coverage, Cisco turned AI demand into $9.3 billion of annual orders, Stanford sharpened the early-career labor warning, and DeepMind's leadership change carried a new safety-governance push. 6 evidence-backed stories. AI-generated narration. Complete briefing and source links: https://hottea.ai/archive/2026-08-13?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=show_notes&utm_campaign=daily_briefing Sections 00:00 What we're…