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The platform picks sides

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Welcome to August 29, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

Model access was assumed to be a utility: metered, neutral, available. A supplier cutting off a customer over its parent’s conduct ends that assumption, and every company building on someone else’s weights recalculates.

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2026-08-29: A model supplier cuts off a rival's newly acquired subsidiary

2026-01-10: xAI reportedly used Claude to build Grok until cut off

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The platform picks sides
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KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/themes/no-neutral-infrastructure
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- Welcome to August 29, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-29-2026
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