Who holds the key is now the central political question at every scale, and it is not being asked as one question

A state decides when a model reaches the public. Brussels sets a date obligations commence. Five of the largest companies on earth sign a letter for open weights; the sixth argues for mandatory testing. Sony decides your games will have no discs, and 323,600 people sign against it, carrying the memory of digital libraries lost when accounts were suspended. A governor asks a senator to prove he can still hold his seat. A judge decides whether a fifteen-billion-dollar claim against a newspaper get ...