Frontier AI in May 2026: Power, Access, and the Fallout

From SOCs to orbit: why access control, distillation and data‑center mega‑spend matter more than raw model size this year.

I am back from my travel and slowly going through what I missed, will take me a bit to get back on the routine, but quickly looking through past weeks’ AI news, it looks pretty chaotic from the outside, Loads of new models, more courtroom drama, giant capex numbers and there’s of course space data centers, simply saying, its all scattered to be hoenst b…