# AI Wars of 2026

> A living, source-backed web-book about the competition to define the agentic era of AI.

This index links to clean Markdown representations of the public reader pages.

## Reader pages

- [AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/index.md): A living, source-backed web-book about the competition to define the agentic era of AI.
- [Copyright | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/copyright/index.md): Edition and publication details. A page from the AI Wars of 2026 research edition.
- [Dedication | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/dedication/index.md): A note from the author. A page from the AI Wars of 2026 research edition.
- [Preface | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/preface/index.md): The central question and working thesis. A page from the AI Wars of 2026 research edition.
- [How to Read This Book | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/reading-guide/index.md): A guide to the argument and its evidence. A page from the AI Wars of 2026 research edition.
- [About the Author | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/about-the-author/index.md): The person behind this research edition. A page from the AI Wars of 2026 research edition.
- [What Is Being Contested? | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/the-wars/index.md): The prizes, positions, and tests of winning. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [Beyond the Chatbot Era | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/the-shift/index.md): From Answers to Delegated Action. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [What Makes an AI Agent Different? | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/what-makes-an-ai-agent-different/index.md): Capability, Authority, and Oversight. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [The New AI Stack | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/the-new-ai-stack/index.md): The Control Layers Around Delegated Action. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [Why Distribution May Matter More Than Model Quality | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/why-distribution-matters/index.md): The Contested Delegated-Action Hypothesis. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [Microsoft | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/microsoft/index.md): Enterprise Intelligence Platform. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [OpenAI | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/openai/index.md): AI-Native Work Platform. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [Google | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/google/index.md): Integrated Ecosystem. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [Amazon | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/amazon/index.md): Infrastructure-First Host. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [Anthropic | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/anthropic/index.md): Trusted Model Core. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [Apple | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/apple/index.md): Conditional Personal-Device Contender. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [NVIDIA | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/nvidia/index.md): AI Infrastructure Platform. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [Meta | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/meta/index.md): Open-Weight Distribution Play. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [The Contest Map | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/contest-map/index.md): The routes being tested across contested AI positions. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [Agent Runtimes | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/agent-runtimes/index.md): In research: state, tools, and orchestration. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [Protocols, Data Access, Identity, and Coordination | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/protocols-identity-and-coordination/index.md): In research: the rules around agent connection and context. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [Controlled Action | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/controlled-action/index.md): In research: how agents affect the world. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [The New Battlegrounds | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/battlegrounds/index.md): In research: the five questions that shape the contest. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [What Winning Means | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/chapter/who-wins/index.md): In research: a bounded balance-of-power synthesis. Source-backed analysis from AI Wars of 2026.
- [Reader Feedback | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/feedback/index.md): Share feedback to improve the AI Wars of 2026 research edition.
- [Research Roadmap | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/roadmap/index.md): The reader-facing research agenda and evidence triggers for AI Wars of 2026.
- [Methodology | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/methodology/index.md): How AI Wars of 2026 distinguishes evidence, hypotheses, and open questions.
- [Glossary | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/glossary/index.md): Key terms used throughout the AI Wars of 2026 research edition.
- [AI Wars DEFCON Assessment](https://ai-wars.correax.com/defcon/index.md): The current evidence-led assessment of strategic competitive escalation in AI.
- [AI Wars Timeline](https://ai-wars.correax.com/timeline/index.md): A source-linked timeline of developments shaping the agentic era of AI.
- [How Knowledge Work Changes | AI Wars of 2026](https://ai-wars.correax.com/work/index.md): For more than a century, office technologies have changed how people find information, coordinate decisions, produce artifacts, and preserve organizational memory. The work did not simply disappear: its cognitive burden moved.

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