This was the week the frontier labs stopped being vendors. OpenAI now runs inside US biodefense and Japan’s three biggest banks, and it just mapped its own safety rules to EU and California AI law. Meanwhile China unveiled an LLM that automates satellite targeting. Workforce policy is splintering: China bars AI layoffs by court order, the UK proposes mandatory bargaining, Wikimedia just fired its union organizers. There is no consensus to back into.
