OpenAI shipped GPT-6 and rationed it, Meta priced customer data, a contract clause cut off Cursor, and Europe put ChatGPT under search rules.

The open hubs, search indexes, and model vendors operators treated as neutral each got an owner, a price, or an automation this week.

This week AI capability spread to more people while gateways, data and compute concentrated in fewer hands and the cheap-token assumption cracked on two fronts.

Frontier prices fell, a neutral coding tool got acquired, and European funding surged. Capability got cheaper while ownership grew more concentrated.