Together, the developments highlight the growing influence of AI companies on both financial markets and technology policy. They also underscore how competition among leading AI firms is increasingly intersecting with broader discussions about investment flows, national security, and the future of public markets. OpenAI Takes a Major Step Toward a Public Listing OpenAI has confidentially…
Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 are, by Anthropic’s own description, the same underlying model. One is available to anybody with a Claude subscription or API key. The other is restricted to a vetted group of cybersecurity firms, critical infrastructure providers, and selected biology researchers. For the first time, a frontier AI lab has…
Eight weeks after Dario Amodei walked out of the Pentagon, the AI trade looks different. OpenAI is missing revenue targets, Anthropic is at a US$30 billion run-rate and racing toward an October listing, and the case for two trillion-dollar AI companies is suddenly contested. Is the AI bubble starting to pop? When the Wall Street…
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 on Thursday, pushing its latest frontier model to hundreds of millions of ChatGPT and Codex users barely six weeks after the debut of GPT-5.4 — a cadence of upgrades that is starting to feel less like product launches and more like rolling infrastructure deployment. The San Francisco company introduced the new model…
Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable commercial AI model yet — and spent much of the launch reminding everyone it has a better one locked in the vault. Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, the latest iteration of its flagship commercial AI model, extending its lead over OpenAI and Google in…
Anthropic has taken the unusual step of withholding its most capable AI model from the public, not because it underperforms, but because it works too well. Claude Mythos Preview, announced Tuesday as part of a new industry initiative called Project Glasswing, has demonstrated cybersecurity capabilities so advanced that the company has concluded a general release…
Oil is behaving like oil in a war should behave. With the Strait of Hormuz effectively shut and around a fifth of global oil flows caught in the line of fire, crude has surged to levels not seen in roughly two years. Reuters reported that U.S. crude jumped more than $10 in a single day,…
The week ending February 28, 2026 will likely be studied in business schools for a generation. Within a single Friday afternoon, President Donald Trump banned a major American AI company from all federal contracts, the Pentagon designated that same company a national security risk on par with foreign adversaries, and its biggest competitor swept in…
Anthropic and the U.S. Pentagon are in a high-stakes dispute over how the military can use Anthropic’s AI systems, in a confrontation that has quickly become one of the most important commercial-policy tests in the AI sector this year. Reuters reported this week that Anthropic has no intention of easing key military-use restrictions, even after…
Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic and one of the most influential voices in AI today has written a sprawling essay The Adolescence of Technology. He frames humanity’s current relationship with powerful artificial intelligence as a turbulent rite of passage — a phase fraught with risk, upheaval, and potential transformation. Amodei’s core argument is that we’re…