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July 15, 2026
Help wanted: Anthropic hires to head off catastrophe
Anthropic has warned that its own technology could bring the end of civilization. Check out its latest job listings to understand how.Why it matters: Anthropic has 32 very scary job openings for ro...
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July 10, 2026
OpenAI's No. 2 executive steps down over health issues
Fidji Simo is stepping down after taking medical leave because of a worsening chronic illness.The big picture: Simo's departure removes one of OpenAI's highest-profile executives.Driving the news: ...
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July 8, 2026
Scoop: SpaceXAI launches new model, Grok 4.5
Elon Musk's SpaceXAI is launching Grok 4.5, its smartest model yet, and its first release since going public and acquiring the AI coding startup Cursor.Why it matters: The new model is being pitche...
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July 6, 2026
Startup bets that investors want to trade compute like a commodity
Ornn, an Andreessen Horowitz-backed startup, raised a $33 million seed round to build a marketplace for trading the computing power that underpins today's AI boom, similar to what exists for oil tr...
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July 2, 2026
OpenAI courts Trump administration as its latest investor
OpenAI may give the U.S. government a 5% stake in the company, per the Financial Times. The proposal is in very preliminary conversations, according to a person familiar with the matter.Why it matt...
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July 1, 2026
Anthropic's Fable 5 is back after the Trump administration lifted export controls
Anthropic's Fable 5 model came back online for users on Wednesday, after the Trump administration lifted an export control late Tuesday.Why it matters: It's the most powerful publicly available AI ...
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June 29, 2026
The pro-AI movement is splintering
The pro-AI movement is splintering over a defining question: whether national security concerns outweigh the need to keep America's AI companies ahead of Chinese rivals. Why it matters: The fight i...
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June 12, 2026
SpaceX pops 11% at open after biggest U.S. IPO in history
SpaceX shares rose 11% in initial trades Friday, placing the company in the top 10 largest companies in the U.S.Why it matters: The $150 price indicates a $1.97 trillion market cap, putting it imme...
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June 2, 2026
Anthropic faces AI spending backlash before IPO
Anthropic filed paperwork to go public just as corporate America is entering its AI sticker shock phase.Why it matters: Companies are Anthropic's biggest customers. If they dial down their AI spend...
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June 1, 2026
Alphabet seeks $80 billion to fund AI buildout
Alphabet said Monday it plans to raise up to $80 billion in equity to help fund its AI ambitions, which includes a $10 billion investment from Berkshire Hathaway via a private deal. Why it matters:...
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May 28, 2026
Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup
Anthropic raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round, valuing the AI lab at $965 billion post-money, in one of the largest private funding rounds in tech history.Why it matters: With the round,...
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May 28, 2026
Corporate America enters its AI reckoning
Corporate leaders are starting to question whether soaring AI spending is delivering meaningful returns.Why it matters: Companies that rushed to embrace AI are now confronting ballooning IT costs, ...
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May 27, 2026
OpenAI and Anthropic dig in against each other on AI jobs apocalypse
AI's most powerful CEOs are splitting into warring camps over whether their own technology will gut white-collar work or supercharge it — but the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.Why it ...
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May 19, 2026
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic
Andrej Karpathy, one of the best-known AI researchers in the world and a founding member of OpenAI, announced Tuesday that he's joining rival AI lab Anthropic.Why it matters: The hire is a major co...
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May 19, 2026
In Musk v. Altman trial, the entire AI industry lost
The biggest tech trial of the AI era — which ended anticlimactically Monday on procedural grounds — revealed a sector consumed by the same power struggles and profit motives its leaders once warned...
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May 17, 2026
AI backlash becomes a real business risk
If AI were a candidate for political office, it would be losing in a landslide.Why it matters: The AI hype cycle would have you believe the technology is inevitable. But AI backlash is growing, as ...
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May 7, 2026
How Elon grew to love Anthropic
Elon Musk's surprise Anthropic deal allows him to accomplish two things at once: turn unused compute into revenue before an expected SpaceX IPO next month — and stick it to his archrival, Sam Altma...
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May 5, 2026
Jamie Dimon blesses the trillion-dollar AI capex boom
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon stood next to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei in New York on Tuesday and told Wall Street the AI buildout is worth every dollar.Why it matters: With investors increasingly...
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May 4, 2026
AI godfather Yann LeCun's advice on college, work and breaking through AI hype
If AI doomerism is freaking you out, consider the advice of Yann LeCun, former Meta AI chief and a scientist with over 40 years of experience in the field.Why it matters: As CEOs warn of job loss a...
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April 30, 2026
AI labs can't stop leapfrogging each other
The AI industry has entered an era of perpetual upheaval where market leaders are crowned — and dethroned — every few months.Today's hottest company could be eclipsed by summer and the laggard coul...
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April 26, 2026
AI can cost more than human workers now
IT budgets are getting blown out as some companies increasingly spend more on AI than on employees' salaries.Why it matters: Maybe human labor will be more cost efficient after all. What they're sa...
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April 23, 2026
OpenAI releases "Spud" GPT-5.5 model
OpenAI on Thursday released its most capable model, GPT-5.5, codenamed "Spud," just one week after competitor Anthropic launched its latest model. Why it matters: AI releases are getting faster, mo...
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April 21, 2026
SpaceX nears deal with Cursor
SpaceX said Tuesday it agreed to a deal with AI coding startup Cursor that could result in an acquisition or $10 billion investment.Why it matters: The deal underscores CEO Elon Musk's push to make...
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April 21, 2026
OpenAI-Anthropic enterprise rivalry heats up
OpenAI is mobilizing consulting partners and touting its compute edge to claw back enterprise customers from Anthropic, as both labs barrel toward potential IPOs.Why it matters: The outcome of this...
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April 21, 2026
Anthropic bites back in the compute wars with Amazon partnership
Anthropic is expanding its partnership with Amazon, committing more than $100 billion over the next decade to secure massive new computing capacity.Why it matters: Compute capacity is the currency ...
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