#claude
- 7/5/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #27/2026: Claude Sonnet 5 Becomes the New Standard - and Grok 4.5 Remains a Claim
Claude Sonnet 5 replaces Claude 4.6 as the new default model for Free and Pro, while Musk promises Opus-level performance for Grok 4.5 - without showing a single benchmark.
- 5/31/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #22/2026: Anthropic Nearly Worth a Trillion
Anthropic closes a $65B round approaching a trillion-dollar valuation – plus GitHub Copilot shock, Claude Opus 4.8, and a papal AI encyclical.
- 4/19/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #16/2026: Claude Opus 4.7 Strikes Back – But a Laptop Model Is Catching Up
Anthropic's new flagship delivers 3x more production coding power, Cursor eyes a $50B valuation, and a free open-source model beats Opus 4.7 on a MacBook.
- 3/15/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #12/2026: AI as Grounds for Layoffs — Meta Eyes 14,000 Positions, the Industry's New Playbook
Meta considers up to 20% workforce reduction to fund aggressive AI investments; Anthropic brings 1-million-token context at no extra cost; ChatGPT becomes an agent hub for DoorDash, Spotify, and Uber.
- 2/8/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 6/2026
Claude Opus 4.6 discovers 500 zero-days, OpenAI launches Frontier for enterprise agents, Big Tech invests $650B in AI infrastructure
- 2/1/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly - Week 05/2026
Anthropic announced Claude's Mars mission, Meta invests $135 billion in AI, OpenAI seeks $60 billion in fresh capital