05.22.26: The week the agent showed up.

This week the AI race quietly stopped being about benchmarks. The action moved to the agent in the background, the integration inside your tools, and the power grid that runs all of it.NextEra announced a $66.8 billion acquisition of Dominion Energy, explicitly priced around AI data center power. Google released Gemini 3.5 Flash and launched Gemini Spark, an always-on personal AI agent. Anthropic went horizontal in seven days with Claude for Small Business, a $200 million Gates Foundation partnership, and expanded alliances with PwC and KPMG. And the three biggest AI companies quietly raised prices the same way this quarter.You can find everything we covered, plus the deeper read, over at intelligencedistilled.io.