Everything EC TV has published on FRONTIER AI — frontier moves, engineering practice, and what each one changes for a Laravel team shipping AI.
Tooling now lets an agent search, budget, and check out on real merchants — on a low-limit virtual card, with a human gate before "Place Order."
An MIT-licensed model from China is now trading blows with Opus and Fable inside a coding harness — the open-weight frontier just stopped being a fallback.
The US executive branch already forced Anthropic to cut access to a Claude model, and is now gating GPT-5.6 customer-by-customer. If your product rides one closed model, that’s a single point of failure with a political trigger.
EC TV is written by Eduardo Cruz — a senior Laravel engineer who ships production AI agents and MCP servers.
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