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Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:
Anthropic launches Opus 4.8, saying it's “more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims”, at the same price as 4.7  —  On Thursday, Anthropic released Opus 4.8, the newest version of its most advanced publicly available model.
Claude:
Anthropic adds dynamic workflows to Claude Code, enabling hundreds of subagents to run in parallel for complex engineering tasks such as framework migrations  —  Early access users and teams inside Anthropic have been using dynamic workflows for a wide range of use cases, including:
Madison Mills / Axios:
Anthropic says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers “in the coming weeks” following the development of stronger safeguards  —  Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 Thursday, an upgrade to its flagship AI model with better coding and knowledge work skills, all for the same price as its prior version.
New York Times:
Anthropic raised a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation, overtaking OpenAI's $852B valuation, and says its revenue run rate crossed $47B this month  —  Anthropic raised $65 billion in new fund-raising that put its value at $900 billion, ahead of OpenAI's last valuation of $730 billion, as the companies duel for A.I. dominance.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Dell reports Q1 revenue up 88% YoY to $43.84B, vs. $35.43B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 38%+ after hours  —  Dell reported its fastest pace of revenue growth for any period since its return to the public market more than seven years ago, and topped analysts' estimates for sales and profit.
Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times:
Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks  —  Senior executive Dave Treadwell tells staff 'don't use AI just for the sake of using AI' as costs rise
Raphael Satter / Reuters:
Letter: US Central Command says it received “threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data” to target US personnel in war zones  —  U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data …
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters:
The European Commission fines Temu €200M under the DSA for allegedly failing to adequately stop the sale of illegal products; further penalties could follow  —  Chinese online retailer Temu has been fined €200 million ($232 million) on Thursday for not doing enough to stop the sale …
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
Waymo unveils Ojai, a vehicle designed in partnership with Zeekr for robotaxi use, initially for select riders in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Waymo unit will deploy a new autonomous vehicle designed specifically for robotaxi use, offering public rides in California and Arizona without human supervision.
Reuters:
IBM plans to invest more than $10B in quantum computing over five years as it aims to build the first large-scale, error-free quantum computer by 2029  —  IBM (IBM.N) said on Thursday it plans to invest more than $10 billion in quantum computing over five years as it aims to build by 2029 …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Illustrations based on sources detail Apple's Siri overhaul, like a new UI and chatbot-style app, and major iOS 27 changes, ahead of the WWDC keynote on June 8  —  The iPhone maker looks to stage a comeback in digital assistants and artificial intelligence.
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog:
Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have finally found product-market fit with coding agents, which are quickly becoming daily drivers for very well-paid professionals  —  Anthropic are strongly rumored to be about to have their first profitable quarter.  Stories are circulating of companies surprised …
Axios:
Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~$12B valuation, up from $8B late last year, and hit $1.5B in ARR, up from $1B in October  —  Payments firm Airwallex has raised new funding at around a $12 billion valuation led by Lee Fixel's Addition, Axios has learned.
Bloomberg:
Oura unveils the Oura Ring 5, with a 40% smaller form factor, improved sensing, and repositioned LEDs, shipping from June 4 for $399, up from the Ring 4's $349  —  Oura Health Oy, the popular smart ring maker seeking to go public this year, unveiled a significantly thinner and lighter new model along with new wellness features.
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon C, an entry-level ARM-based SoC for Windows 11 devices starting from $300 and shipping in 2026, taking aim at the MacBook Neo  —  Qualcomm has unveiled its new entry-level ARM-based SoC for Windows 11 devices that will begin shipping later this year on devices that cost as low as $300.
Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal:
IBM and Red Hat commit $5B to establish a new open-source software model, dubbed Project Lightwell, and will deploy 20,000 engineers globally, supported by AI  —  Project Lightwell will deploy a global force of 20,000 engineers, supported by advanced artificial intelligence
CJ Haddad / CNBC:
Tel Aviv-based web development company Wix cuts ~20% of its workforce, citing the “fast evolution of AI capabilities” and currency exchange rate difficulties  —  Israel-based web development company Wix is slashing roughly 20% of its workforce, CEO Avishai Abrahami announced …
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Filing: CNN sues Perplexity in New York for allegedly unlawfully copying and distributing CNN content, after failing to agree on terms with Perplexity in 2025  —  CNN is suing Perplexity, accusing the AI company of unlawfully copying and distributing CNN's content.
Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Autodesk agrees to buy MaintainX, a company focused on maintenance tools, in an all-cash deal that values MaintainX at $3.6B  —  Engineering software maker Autodesk Inc. has agreed to buy MaintainX, a firm focused on maintenance tools.  —  The all-cash deal will value MaintainX at $3.6 billion, Autodesk said in a statement Thursday.
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Intel unveils its first dedicated handheld gaming chips, the Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme, featuring Xe3 GPU cores, arriving first in the Acer Predator Atlas 8  —  The Acer Predator Atlas 8 will be one of the first to use it — and there's reportedly an MSI too.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Apollo Global and Blackstone are working to bring additional investors into a ~$36B debt financing deal to purchase Google TPUs for Anthropic to lease  —  Apollo Global Management Inc. and Blackstone Inc. are working to bring additional investors into a roughly $36 billion debt financing deal …
More: Reuters
Financial Times:
Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, is setting aside $500M to build its own AI platform rather than rely on tools available to its rivals  —  World's highest-grossing law firm plans to put the ‘collective intelligence’ of its lawyers into a tech platform
Russell Brandom / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk says Anthropic's Colossus deal is “a 180 day lease with 90 day notice”; SpaceX's S-1 said Anthropic “agreed to pay a monthly fee through May 2029”  —  Earlier this month, xAI signed a major compute deal with Anthropic, pledging billions of dollars a month …

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