The daily dispatch — what changed, and which lesson or playbook it implies.

OpenAI hands chemistry to a model and grades it on a fresh benchmark, Anthropic's flagship enters day six of a government timeout, Brussels files its annual report card, and a world-model startup quietly pockets $310M.

SpaceX swallows Cursor for $60B, the frontier-lab CEOs lunch with the G7, OpenAI rehearses deployments before shipping, Google retires the Gemini CLI today, and GPT-5.5 edges Fable 5 on a fresh agent benchmark.

DeepSeek closes a $7.4B round with a control structure built like a vault, a fresh Qwen-alumnus lab raises at ~$2B, MiniMax publishes attention math, and the foundry crunch keeps shoving orders toward Samsung.

A $3.6B agent acquisition, Meta aiming AI at your old posts, two fresh funding rounds, Anthropic re-opening a metered door, and a layoff wave that AI keeps getting blamed for.

A quiet launch cycle for new models, but Bezos's industrial-AI bet, Europe's content-labelling code, and a wave of gigawatt infrastructure deals carried the signal.

Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B to automate physical engineering, OpenAI buys a German cloud startup to let Codex grind for days, Moonshot ships another open coding model, and Washington reaches into Anthropic's model catalog.

Google ships a diffusion text model, OpenAI buys an agent sandbox, Bezos's AI lab clears a $41B mark, Mistral and others pass the funding hat, and Anthropic apologizes for secretly throttling me at the people most likely to build a competitor.