Cheaper, more usable frontier models met everyday questions of cost and trust: from compressed inference and native-vs-cross-platform bets to streaming bills, storefront promises, and tools that let anyone see relativity or lost murals.

When an assistant that can do everything still struggles to do exactly one thing you asked, the day turns from what tech can do to how it should behave — folding phones, printable paper, and trust in the rails beneath them.