The US military is still using Claude — but defense-tech clients are fleeing
As the U.S. continues its aerial attack on Iran, Anthropic models are being used for many targeting decisions.
Anduril aims at $60 billion valuation in new funding round
The funding round would come less than a year after Anduril’s Series G, which closed in June with $2.5 billion against a $30 billion valuation.
No one has a good plan for how AI companies should work with the government
As OpenAI transitions from a wildly successful consumer startup into a piece of national security infrastructure, the company seems unequipped to manage its new responsibilities.
President Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic after Pentagon dispute
“We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again,” the president wrote in the post.
OpenAI raises $110B in one of the largest private funding rounds in history
The new funding consists of a $50 billion investment from Amazon as well as $30 billion each from Nvidia and SoftBank, against a $730 billion valuation.
Trace raises $3M to solve the AI agent adoption problem in enterprise
Trace is launching with $3 million in seed funding, including investment from Y Combinator, Zeno Ventures, Transpose Platform Management, Goodwater Capital, Formosa Capital, and WeFunder.
Nvidia has another record quarter amid record capex spends
“The demand for tokens in the world has gone completely exponential,” Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said about the company’s earnings.
Anthropic launches new push for enterprise agents with plugins for finance, engineering, and design
It’s a major opportunity to grow Anthropic’s enterprise client base — and a significant threat to SaaS products currently performing those functions.
Google’s Cloud AI lead on the three frontiers of model capability
AI models are pushing against three frontiers at once: raw intelligence, response time, and a third quality you might call “extensibility.”
How AI agents could destroy the economy
Citrini Research imagines a report from two years in the future, in which unemployment has doubled and the total value of the stock market has fallen by more than a third.