Last week redrew the outlines of ownership and responsibility in AI. What gets bought widened from model builders to gateways and then to data centre land and power, while the copyright fight moved off the question of training and onto how works were obtained and what models produce.
Last week's AI news turned on the pace of development itself. The call to slow down came from inside the competing labs, and in the same seven days the weights that had been promised were published on schedule.
Last week's AI news turned on a single dial — how much a model should refuse. A setting loosened for evaluation produced an unprecedented intrusion, and a setting tightened for safety stopped the people investigating it.
Last week, the question of who may use the frontier models moved from stopping access to restoring it under conditions. In parallel, AI settled in as a workplace colleague, and the compute, power, and capital that sustain it came to the front.