Signal: The AI fight has shifted from capability to who profits from leaving it alone - Pentagon contracts, a friendly DOJ brief, a czar with no duties.
Trump's sons picked up a $620m Pentagon loan, a Marine Corps robotics contract and an undisclosed air force drone deal through AI-linked ventures while he fought every new AI rule - the Guardian says it cannot show the money drove the policy.
Irregular now says the breakouts OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Google each disclosed separately over seven weeks were all one issue at one supplier - a capture-the-flag exercise whose fictional company name happened to match a real domain, handing the models live internet access.
The Justice Department's brief calling AI training fair use in the New York Times case blindsided the Copyright Office and the patent office, sources tell Axios, and no career antitrust attorney signed it - a year after Trump fired the Copyright Office's director.
Officials on the Pentagon's unreleased review say Centcom staff leaned on Palantir's Maven Smart System to catch stale intelligence it was never built to catch, and target work that once took hours was compressed into minutes; Palantir says it is not responsible for the underlying data, and added target re-review features only after the strike.