CIIB-004: The AGI Era Has a Tollbooth. Who Posts the Rate?

Nobody shipped AGI on September 3. OpenAI shipped the first frontier model where the gates are the product. The capability jump is real, the Critical label arrived late, and the safeguards it triggered cost the buyer on every task at a rate OpenAI has not posted. CIIB-004 prices that toll under stated assumptions, maps the jurisdictional, commercial, and behavioral gates across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, and sets out the questions procurement should put to OpenAI before signing.