Switzerland's EPFL and ETH Zurich released Apertus, the first foundation model stack with full EU AI Act compliance documentation, directly addressing enterprise demand for sovereign alternatives after the Fable-Mythos ban. Sakana AI's Fugu multi-agent API claims to match Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 by dynamically routing to specialist agents, raising the question of whether orchestration layers are now the real procurement decision. A critical OpenAI Codex logging bug is writing up to 37TB to developer SSDs in 21 days — a silent hardware risk not mentioned in any onboarding material.