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Anthropic said it has never advocated banning open-weights models, and named chip controls, distillation enforcement and mandatory safety testing as its actual policy asks.
Microsoft launched a $2.5B AI deployment unit, Anthropic entered custom chip discussions with Samsung, and Apple's Safari MCP server brought AI agent tooling to browser debugging.
Microsoft dominated Build 2026 with seven MAI models and a suite of agent governance tools, Trump signed a narrowed AI executive order establishing voluntary prerelease review for frontier models, and Anthropic expanded Project Glasswing to 150 organizations across 15+ countries.
Hyperscaler earnings dominated the cycle: Microsoft committed $190 billion in 2026 AI capex, Google Cloud cleared $20 billion quarterly revenue and will sell TPUs externally for the first time, and Amazon's custom chip business crossed a $20 billion annual run rate.
Microsoft and OpenAI restructured their partnership to end exclusivity and revenue sharing, clearing the way for OpenAI models on AWS and other competing clouds.