After 14 years, ICANN has revealed new domain extension applications: 1,615 in total, with .agent the most contested. OpenAI, Google, Meta and Anthropic are all on the list. When will these extensions be usable, and do they really matter?
Amodei published a plan to slow the frontier, and Altman and Musk backed it. The immediate reaction was that big AI wants to block open-source rivals. Here is where that reading holds up — and where it gets more complicated.