Today is Memorial Day in the United States, and there will be no Wednesday AI Change Desk episode this week. This Monday episode keeps the feed useful without forcing novelty into a quiet official-news cycle.

The core operating point: no-new-delta days are not skip days. They are verification days.

The May 25 source check did not find a newer relevant OpenAI release-note date displacing the May 21 Codex update. That means the operating frame should stay date-bounded: the Codex execution signal remains current, while provenance, creator distribution, and community pulse remain supporting context.

Teams get into trouble when they confuse "checked today" with "changed today." A refreshed page, community chatter, or a useful trade report can create pressure to say something new. The discipline is to separate confirmed change,  ...