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🚀 Welcome to the AI Unraveled Weekly Rundown. This week didn't just bring news; it brought a fundamental rewriting of the power structures in Silicon Valley and Washington. From record-shattering $110 billion funding rounds to the first-ever federal blacklisting of a major AI lab, the "vibe check" era of AI is officially over. We are now in the era of Industrialized Intelligence.

Weekly Highlights:

• The Federal Blacklist: President Trump bans Anthropic from federal agencies over safety guardrails; OpenAI signs a classified Pentagon deal hours later.
• The $110 Billion War Chest: OpenAI secures the largest private funding round in history from Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank.
• The Bezos Disruption Fund: Jeff Bezos returns to an operational role with "Project Prometheus" to buy companies before AI disrupts them.
• The Efficiency Cliff: Block lays off 4,000 employees as Jack Dorsey bets on AI agents.
• The COBOL Collapse: IBM stock dives as Anthropic proves AI can modernize legacy financial code in weeks, not years.
• Hardware Wars: Meta signs multi-billion dollar deals with both Google (TPUs) and AMD to diversify away from Nvidia.
• The "Patty" Bot: Burger King begins using AI to monitor employee politeness in real-time.

Keywords:

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