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A Week That Reached Further Than Any One Story

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On a Sunday morning when S&P 500 futures were signaling a calm open and a U.S. cargo-vessel interdiction in the Gulf of Oman was still reverberating through diplomatic channels, four of the most powerful technology companies in the world were also navigating questions about coercion, child safety, and the limits of self-regulation — questions that the week's events made considerably harder to dismiss.

The throughline connecting Google's AI ultimatum to schools, the AI industry's voluntary opt-out standard for web content, OpenAI's belated restrictions on weapons information for teen users, and Google's new Gemini learning library was not coincidence. It was a coherent and accelerating contest over who controls the terms of AI adoption — and what recourse anyone has when those terms are set unilaterally.

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