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When You Dam a River, the Water Just Finds the Next Channel
Zhipu climbed 33 percent in a single session. The trigger, depending on which desk you ask, was a major US lab tightening access abroad: fewer doors open overseas, so the money rotated to whoever still had a door open. The move is being read as enthusiasm, and it isn’t. Capital is water. Wall off one…
The Agent That Mattered Wasn’t on Stage
Google quietly killed Project Mariner this week. The web-browsing agent it walked across the IO stage last year, the one meant to click through forms and book your flights and live inside a browser tab, is gone, retired with a footer-sized announcement and no farewell tour. A year ago it was the future, the thing…