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Steve Yegge, the loudest advocate for heavy-spend AI agent orchestration, shut down his flagship project after admitting it never shipped working software, while Databricks and a mysterious free stealth model both show benchmark numbers failing to predict real-world coding costs. Cohere and Aleph Alpha finalized a $20 billion sovereign-AI merger the same week Anthropic published a first-of-its-kind metric for how much AI is building AI, and Google DeepMind launched a think tank to stake out a more cautious posture on AGI risk. Unsealed litigation filings add new documentary evidence that Microsoft and OpenAI knew their training-data practices were legally fraught, while a wave of new agent-oversight infrastructure — whistleblower hotlines, behavior audits, and UN-backed data layers — signals the industry racing to build guardrails as fast as it builds capability.