This week in AI wasn't about new models or benchmark announcements. It was about the messy, expensive, politically complicated reality of what happens when autonomous agents start doing real work inside real organizations — and real governments start paying attention.

We cover the Pentagon's move to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk, President Trump's order halting federal use of the product, and OpenAI's Sam Altman securing a defense deal by promising hardened technical safeguards. The fracture between Silicon Valley's safety-first culture and Washington's operational demands is now the defining fault line in the industry.

We break down the SaaSpocalypse in concrete terms: ServiceNow automating 90% of internal IT requests, Perplexity launching a $200/month autonomous Computer agent, and Jack Dorsey cutting 40% of Block's workfo ...