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Four dated instances since June 2025 of a frontier lab restricting model access, three of them involving a coding tool. Nothing was cut off overnight.

OpenAI says it will wind down the contract supplying its models to Cursor, with a proposed cutoff of November 12, 2026. What BYOK does not cover.

Most AI products resell a model under a contract between two other companies, and contracts end. Four durable places to check what your tool actually runs.

Press reported that investors are targeting a $2 trillion Anthropic IPO, a figure the company has not fixed. A reading protocol for numbers that arrive by leak.

DeepSeek aliases retired, MCP capabilities deprecated, Sora's API sunsetting — three unrelated clocks in one month. How to build a deprecation calendar.

The Pacing the Frontier letter asks for the option to slow frontier AI, not a pause. What a procurement team should actually do with that information today.

A bipartisan House bill introduced July 23 would require the largest AI developers to keep a working off-switch, and would let DHS order it pulled.

An industry letter on open weights grew from 25 to 50 signatories in two days. Behind it sit sanctions threats and quieter federal procurement levers.

Anthropic extended Fable 5 access and Claude Code limits through July 19. Updated: the July 18 announcement resolved the cliff — here is how terms landed.

Three days after launch, US export controls forced Anthropic to pull Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally. The legal mechanism, the fallout, and the new vendor risk.