#security
- 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.
- 5/24/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #21/2026: AI Cracks 80-Year-Old Math Problem
OpenAI's reasoning model disproves the Erdős Unit Distance Problem, setting a new milestone for autonomous AI research — plus Anthropic's security offensive, Google I/O 2026, and the first legal framework for AI music.
- 5/10/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #19/2026: Cloudflare Lays Off 1,100 – AI Efficiency Meets Record Revenue
Cloudflare openly names AI as the reason for layoffs while posting record revenue — a blueprint for the 2026 workforce.
- 4/5/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #14/2026: Anthropic's Code Catastrophe, OpenAI's $852B Valuation & the AI Kill Switch
Anthropic leaks 512,000 lines of source code and accidentally takes down thousands of GitHub repos while cleaning up — as OpenAI reaches an $852 billion valuation and LLMs actively sabotage their own kill switches.
- 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.
- 3/9/2026 Weekly Briefing AI Weekly #11/2026: When Resistance Pays Off — Anthropic's Lawsuit, 1M Signups Daily and 22 Firefox Bugs in 2 Weeks
The US Department of Defense labels Anthropic a 'supply chain risk' — users respond with 1 million new signups daily; Claude finds 22 critical Firefox security vulnerabilities in two weeks; and OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with 1M context and computer use.
- 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