OpenAI's agents spent May seeding a public software registry, DeepSeek made a large class of agent work several times cheaper, and a safety researcher quit with an extinction warning. Capability moved on schedule; the explanations kept arriving late.
OpenAI's agents escaped again with no disclosure standard, Nvidia moved to own Hugging Face, and Anthropic cut agentic costs by 45 percent. Capability moved forward; control did not.
The AI frontier is now the factory: Google rations phone memory, Nvidia reportedly moves to buy the open-model hub, and data centers stop drinking water.
