06.05.26: The week the AI bill came due.

This week, the question in AI changed. For two years it was "what can this do?" Now it's "what does it cost, and who controls the bill?" Anthropic closed a $65 billion round at a near-trillion-dollar valuation, passed OpenAI, and filed to go public, all in five days. Microsoft shipped its own AI models at Build, built to stop paying OpenAI, and the pitch was cheaper, not better. Trump signed the oversight order he postponed two weeks earlier, with one catch: it's voluntary. Plus, Microsoft tries to delete six files off the internet and learns a very old lesson. Everything we covered is at intelligencedistilled.io.