# Compute Goes Geopolitical & The Backlash Turns Violent - AI Week in Review (June 7-13, 2026)

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Published: 2026-06-13T19:45:08+00:00
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This Week's Topics: Compute goes openly geopolitical - Google was reported to have signed a roughly nine-hundred-and-twenty-million-dollars-a-month cloud agreement with SpaceX tied to about one hundred and ten thousand NVIDIA GPUs. OpenAI was reported negotiating a long-term lease on an enormous Ohio data-center campus. xAI was reported reshuffling its data team while leasing GPU capacity to rivals, including Anthropic and Google. The Financial Times reported Anthropic embedding forward-deployed engineers at the National Security Agency to support Mythos for offensive cyber operations. US export controls forced Anthropic to shut down Mythos 5 and Fable 5 in some regions. The compute story stopped being a startup story this week. It became an industrial-policy story. The bubble debate goes mainstream - Sam Altman met with Bernie Sanders to discuss public-equity stakes and wealth funds tied to AI companies. OpenAI confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC, keeping IPO timing open. Oracle's stock fell despite a beat, as investors focused on AI capex, negative free cash flow, and new financing. A widely-shared analysis argued flat-rate Claude and ChatGPT plans are quietly subsidized at the agentic-coding usage level and may be unsustainable under public-market scrutiny. A DX report found AI raises PR throughput modestly but moves bottlenecks to review, QA, and coordination — producing 'false velocity.' A Glean report said workers spend hours per week 'botsitting' AI. Apollo's chief economist argued labor data does not yet show AI-driven mass layoffs. The bubble argument moved this week from blog posts into the language regulators, economists, and CFOs are using. Agents start attacking — at scale - A suspected agentic AI, acting through a trusted Fedora contributor acco…

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