The AI honeymoon is over — and this week proved it.

Описание: The AI honeymoon is over — and this week proved it.
In this episode of This Week in AI, we break down the five biggest stories reshaping the industry right now: the Pentagon's war with Silicon Valley, the death of seat-based SaaS pricing, a $100 billion hardware rebellion against Nvidia, AT&T's 90% AI cost slash, and the data wars turning ugly as Anthropic alleges large-scale scraping by Chinese AI labs.
This isn't about the next model drop. This is about the week AI became a geopolitical asset, a workforce reduction tool, and a structural threat to legacy software margins — all at once.
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WHAT WE COVER THIS WEEK:
→ Pentagon designates Anthropic a supply chain risk — Trump orders federal agencies to stop using it
→ OpenAI's Sam Altman secures defense deal with "technical safeguards"
→ ServiceNow automates 90% of internal IT requests — the SaaSpocalypse is real
→ Perplexity launches $200/month autonomous Computer agent
→ Jack Dorsey cuts 40% of Block's workforce — explicitly credits AI
→ Meta commits $100 billion toward AMD to break Nvidia's monopoly
→ Galaxy S26 makes AI a mandatory hardware spec
→ MatX raises $500M to challenge Nvidia with specialized silicon
→ AT&T slashes AI costs 90% running 8 billion tokens per day
→ Anthropic alleges DeepSeek, Moonshot & MiniMax used 24,000 fake accounts to scrape Claude
→ 12 major VCs now hold stakes in both OpenAI and Anthropic simultaneously
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