All three articles are really about the same problem: who controls the values baked into AI systems, and what happens when the control mechanisms fail. OpenAI's board failed. Formal verification in mathematics works precisely because it doesn't rely on trusting anyone. Anthropic is building religious coalitions partly because trust in its own stated values is now a legal liability. The week's through-line is that trust in AI is becoming an institutional infrastructure problem, and none of the institutions are holding.