2026 marks a turning point as AI control moves from utility to leverage, with power concentrated among a few players at six key chokepoints.
The Six Chokepoints: How AI Stopped Being a Utility and Became a Lever
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The Kill Switch: What the Anthropic Export Ban Really Costs the AI Industry
U.S. government disabled Anthropic’s latest AI models under export controls, raising concerns over industry reliability, security, and future innovation.
Search as Code: Perplexity Is Right About the Future — Just Not First to It
Perplexity introduces Search as Code, enabling AI agents to dynamically assemble retrieval pipelines, promising higher accuracy and efficiency.
Avengers Labs: How Ukraine Turned Its Front Line Into the World’s Scarcest AI Dataset
Ukraine’s Avengers Labs leverages battlefield drone data to train AI models, transforming combat footage into a key defense resource amid ongoing conflict.
Candor as a Moat: A Critical Reading of Dario Amodei and Anthropic
A detailed analysis of Dario Amodei’s transparency strategy at Anthropic and its implications for AI regulation, capability, and industry power.
Anthropic’s Safety Story Has Become a Power Story
Anthropic claims its AI systems are increasingly capable of self-improvement, shifting from safety concerns to asserting influence over AI governance and development.
One Model, a Whole Portfolio: What Ten Days on Fable Mean for a Business Building on Frontier AI
A solo experiment with Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 revealed how one model can manage an entire business portfolio, but with security and cost challenges.
When AI Builds Itself: Inside Anthropic’s Evidence on Recursive Self-Improvement
Anthropic presents data indicating AI systems are increasingly automating their own development, raising questions about future recursive self-improvement.
Three Days at the Frontier: Washington Suspends Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government has suspended access to Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models over a suspected jailbreak, citing national security risks, effective June 12.
The Frameworks Can’t See the Thing That Matters: A Year of AI-Enabled Cyber Threats
A new report reveals AI’s role in increasing cyberattack sophistication, challenging existing threat assessment frameworks in 2026.
