This week AI turned into a fight over distribution and control.
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Dapta acquires Beezion and brings growth in-house: the Colombian AI-for-sales startup grew 20% in the first month.
This week the AI giants stopped competing on quality and started competing on control.
Bending Spoons bought Airtable for a fraction of its old valuation, SpaceX confirmed the world’s largest chip factory, and DeepSeek reopened the AI price
AI prices are falling, the fight over open models is heating up, and 2026 is the year governments got obsessed with regulation.
Cheaper intelligence, Amodei against open-weight models, a federal kill switch for AI, and 1.7 billion dollars for robots
This week AI stopped answering questions and started doing the work
This week the agent wars moved from capability to price, ChatGPT started acting on its own, WhatsApp said it will charge for
This week the US government began deciding which AI reaches the market, OpenAI started building its own chips, and Anthropic accused Alibaba
This week, Google signed a $920 million monthly contract with SpaceX for AI compute capacity, Meta launched its Business Agent globally, OpenAI introduced Dreaming V3, Huawei trained DeepSeek V4-Pro, and Microsoft launched seven MAI models.
This week in AI: Anthropic surpasses OpenAI in valuation after a $65 billion Series H, Claude Opus 4.8 ships with better error detection and a cheaper…