Author:  L.Hartwell Affiliation:  Independent Researcher People often talked about AI in 2025 as a series of "fights." These included fights over rules, lawsuits over data and copyright, geopolitical disputes over chips and cloud capacity, and fierce competition among companies to release models that could do more and more. This article contends that numerous conflicts did not "conclude" in 2025 but rather transformed—from vociferous, headline-oriented confrontations to more