The US government just committed five billion dollars to AI-driven science and framed it like the Manhattan Project, signaling that artificial intelligence is now a core national priority. Meanwhile, Google's quiet decision to answer search queries directly with its own AI is erasing traffic for the publishers it learned from, marking what some are calling Google Zero - the end of the web's original bargain.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 this week, bringing near-Fable capability at lower cost and fewer restrictions, directly challenging OpenAI's positioning as AI moves from luxury to infrastructure. Voice interfaces are becoming the dominant way we interact with both ChatGPT and Claude, with OpenAI adding hands-free Codex control and Anthropic embedding voice in Gmail and Slack. OpenAI also launched ChatGPT Health in the US, integrating  ...