On May 14, PwC signed a deal to train 30,000 consultants on Claude. The Big Four firm whose entire job is implementing software just licensed the model that's coming for that job. Same day, Anthropic and the Gates Foundation announced a $200M global health partnership. Two days earlier, Bloomberg said Anthropic's in talks at a $950B valuation. Day before that, Google said Android is no longer an operating system. Call it the week the model providers stopped pretending they only sell models.

This week on Rogue Agents — three big stories, five quick takes:

Three Deep Dives:
1. Anthropic's Enterprise Triple Play — Claude for Small Business, the Gates Foundation deal, and PwC all inside 36 hours. The model provider absorbs the implementation layer. We're calling it Consultancy Capture.
2. Pentagon Excludes Anthropic (Mark Hinkle joins) — The War Department's eight-company AI deal labels Anthropic a "supply chain risk" for refusing "all lawful purposes" language. Mark unpacks the Red Hat parallel and the operating cost of saying no.
3. Google's Gemini Intelligence — Sameer Samat says Android is moving from an operating system to an intelligence system. Plus the Googlebook reveal. Build your MCP server. Agent SEO is your new acquisition channel.

Five Shorts: OpenAI ships GPT-5.5-Cyber to EU regulators · Anthropic's $950B valuation is really a hyperscaler re-up · Wall Street pours PE money into model-provider consulting arms · the Trump admin starts testing Google, Microsoft, and xAI models · Googlebook lands in K-12 and your kid's homework just changed.

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