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Anthropic’s admission that AI utility remains trapped at five percent feels less like a metric and more like a confession of stalled progress. This stagnation contrasts sharply with the aggressive tooling upgrades happening elsewhere in the stack. Runway just integrated Seedance 2.5 to handle full film production pipelines, while HiHarness launched HiDream-O1-Video-1.0 to compete on generative video quality. Meanwhile, the Blender foundation added native Gaussian Splat support, giving open-source creators a critical rendering advantage without proprietary lock-in. Even as OpenAI Astra targets junior legal associates with specialized automation, the industry faces new friction points. Andrew Yang is warning about AI agent pollution clogging digital spaces, and Heart Machine downsized after a publisher canceled an unannounced title.