#funding
- 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.
- 3/29/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #13/2026: OpenAI Buries Sora — AI Industry Pivots to Profitability
OpenAI shuts down Sora and dissolves the Disney deal, Anthropic wins against the Pentagon, and Apple opens Siri to Claude & Gemini.
- 2/15/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #7/2026: $380B Valuation While Software Stocks Plunge
Anthropic raises $30B at $380B valuation, OpenAI accuses DeepSeek of model distillation, Healthcare AI becomes top risk, and Chinese labs prepare coordinated model launches