Today’s strongest thread is that companies are trying to put distance between their core workflows and the frontier labs. AWS helping Superblocks, Palantir’s attack on the AI industry, a Marc Benioff-backed deployment startup and Axios’ warning about open-source AI all point in the same direction: the valuable layer is becoming deployment, orchestration, data control and model choice. For product builders, the lesson is that the winning AI product may not be the smartest model, but the safest place to run everyone else’s models.