The AI honeymoon is over as the Trump administration and 13 states slap Big Tech with a $15 billion "Power Tax" to keep the grid from going dark. We’re breaking down OpenAI’s pivot to ads and "long-term memory," Eli Lilly’s shift to AI-designed antibodies, and the 2-nanometer chip war redrawing the map of global sovereignty. From Sam Altman’s $8 subscriptions to Elon’s deepfake legal showdown in California, the frontier just got a lot more expensive—and a lot more real.