JUL 3, 2026
The chip market flinched, the money didn't→
Meta's cloud-compute pivot wiped billions off chip stocks for a day, Abu Dhabi closed a record $49B AI fund anyway, and Alibaba banned Claude Code over a hidden tracking marker.
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JUN 29, 2026
Proof of work→
The same week investors demanded returns on $452B of AI capex, Ford quietly rehired the engineers its quality AI failed to replace — and xAI bet on a monthly frontier model cadence from private beta.
JUN 12, 2026
The labs are going public→
Anthropic files for an IPO, three AI CEOs head to the G7, and open-source models close the gap on frontier benchmarks.
JUN 7, 2026
The week AI went public — and personal→
Anthropic files for a near-trillion IPO, ChatGPT crosses one billion users with a memory overhaul, and the White House draws a very light line.
JUN 4, 2026
The bill for AI arrives→
Anthropic files for a near-trillion-dollar IPO the same week GitHub moves Copilot to metered billing and Uber caps engineer spending.
MAY 27, 2026
The $900 billion bet, and what surrounds it→
Anthropic confirms its valuation record as China locks down AI talent, a $67B utility merger remakes AI's power infrastructure, and MIT asks us to slow down on the jobs apocalypse.
MAY 26, 2026
Capital piles in. The Pope speaks. Agents go ambient.→
Anthropic closes in on $900B, OpenAI files its S-1, and Google's Spark agent runs 24/7 even when your phone is off.
MAY 25, 2026
Everything's on sale except the company building it→
Google and DeepSeek race each other to the pricing floor; Anthropic quietly aims to close at a $900 billion valuation.