The Procurement Inversion Takes a Paper Cut
MiniMax M3 extends the open-weight procurement default at frontier coding, but on harder terms — non-MIT license, datacenter hardware floor, and DeepSeek wins cache pricing 17x over.
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The Extensions Apple Built and Did Not Ship
iOS 27 Beta 1 contains the full third-party AI Extensions framework — Settings panel, App Store category, entitlements, four system surfaces — with the runtime gated off. None of the four reasons Apple deferred it are technical.
The Integrated Package Wins the Procurement Cycle
Microsoft is the first hyperscaler to ship GA eval, GA governance, an open cross-vendor spec, and a flagship Big-4 deployment in one release window. AWS and Google have 90 days to respond before RFP season closes.