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Claude Opus 4.8 ships — same price, more honest, Fast Mode cost cut 3×
Claude Opus 4.8 ships with Anthropic's H-round announcement. Same API price, beats Opus 4.7 across coding, agents, reasoning. 4× more likely to flag code bugs honestly. Fast Mode unit cost cut 3×.
Anthropic raises $65B at $965B — overtakes OpenAI as world's most-valued AI startup
Anthropic closed a $65B H-round at a $965B post-money, passing OpenAI as the highest-valued AI startup. ARR hit $47B. Likely the last private round before IPO.
Xiaohongshu lands 2026 World Cup rights — Douyin steps aside, price flat
Xiaohongshu signed with CCTV on May 27 for 2026 World Cup broadcast rights. Douyin walked away; price not higher than 2022.
DeepSeek's first round: $10B to $50B in three weeks, China's Big Fund in talks to lead
DeepSeek's valuation jumped four times in three weeks, from $10B in early April to $50B by May 6, with China's National Big Fund in talks to lead.
iOS 27 Siri's new brain: a Gemini-distilled on-device model, with Google Cloud fallback
iOS 27 Siri will run a small model distilled from Google's Gemini, with some requests routed to Google Cloud; Apple pays Google ~$1B/year.
Amazon shuts its AI leaderboard after staff gamed token counts to climb it
Amazon staff gamed an internal AI leaderboard by burning tokens on junk tasks. Meta's «Claudeonomics» logged 60T tokens in 30 days; Uber blew its yearly AI budget in four months.
Microsoft admits Win11's modern UI scaling is rough — major summer quality update incoming
Microsoft confirms a major Windows 11 quality update this summer — migrating core shell to WinUI 3, restoring a movable taskbar, and finally extending dark mode to long-overlooked legacy dialogs.
NYT: cybersecurity hiring runs against the AI replacement curve — 4.8M jobs unfilled, 91% of firms prioritize AI skills
NYT: cybersecurity demand rises with AI capability; 4.8M global jobs unfilled, 91% of firms prioritize AI-skilled hires.
Aliyun caps free authoritative DNS at 100K queries per domain per day from June 24
Aliyun's free authoritative DNS adds a 100K daily query cap per domain from June 24, with over-limit throttling and packet loss — the third tightening since 2024.
Anthropic Glasswing month 1 — Claude Mythos found 10,000+ critical bugs, 530 disclosed, 75 fixed
Anthropic Glasswing month 1: Claude Mythos and ~50 partners found 10,000+ high/critical bugs; 530 disclosed, 75 fixed.
Musk and Zuckerberg killed Trump's AI EO — even «voluntary review» was too much
Hours before signing, Trump shelved a voluntary 90-day federal AI safety review EO after Musk, Zuckerberg, and David Sacks called him directly.
Tesla FSD launches in China as Level 2 — Xpeng Mpilot already holds 60.1% of NOA
Tesla launches FSD Supervised in China as Level 2; Xpeng Mpilot already holds 60.1% of China's NOA smart-driving market.
AI cybersecurity arms race — Anthropic Mythos vs OpenAI Daybreak
Within six weeks Anthropic's Claude Mythos and OpenAI's Daybreak both entered enterprise cybersecurity; Mozilla used Mythos to patch 271 Firefox bugs.
Huang on CNBC: we have exited the China AI chip market
Jensen Huang on CNBC: «Huawei is very, very strong»; NVIDIA's Q2 guidance excludes any China revenue, once 20% of data center sales.
Anthropic in talks to rent Microsoft Maia chips, pays SpaceX $1.25B a month for compute
Anthropic's Q1 compute demand grew 80x annualized against a 10x plan; now in talks to rent Microsoft Maia chips while paying SpaceX $1.25B a month.