Three labs in 2026 are independently calling their LLM 'time-aware' and meaning three different things. The framing problem nobody is naming, the cognitive deficit they all describe, and three falsifiable bets on what comes next.
A six-week investigation into the $1B middleman economy where 45.83% of audited providers serve fake models, 9 routers actively inject malware, and Anthropic's January 2026 OAuth attestation killed the arbitrage gold rush in 90 days.