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- 8/16/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #33/2026: DeepMind Loses Its Stars, Anthropic Rakes In Billions
Hassabis steps down as DeepMind CEO and a top-researcher exodus follows, while Anthropic reports its first operating profit and Claude agents wage turf wars against each other in an experiment.
- 7/12/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #28/2026: xAI Fires Back with Grok 4.5 — Cheaper Than Opus, Faster Than GPT-5.6
xAI launches Grok 4.5 as its first enterprise model after going public, while Beijing weighs export controls on Chinese AI models and the industry faces a $3 trillion revenue gap.
- 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