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OpenAI launches a separate Deployment Company with 19 outside investors and acquires Tomoro for 150 forward-deployed engineers — codifying that frontier-AI value now lives in the integration layer, not the model.

The AI-productivity backlash crosses from blog discourse into operational reality: RPCS3 starts banning undisclosed-AI PRs, two top engineering essays argue the 10x productivity story collapses once maintenance is priced in, and the NYT corrects an article where an AI summary was rendered as a fabricated quote.

Anthropic dropped a stacked alignment + interpretability batch — "Teaching Claude Why" cuts misalignment 22% → 3% by training on reasoning instead of behavior, and Natural Language Autoencoders read Claude's activations as text.