09 Jul 2026
SpaceX’s Anthropic compute deal reshapes xAI economics ahead of landmark IPO
SpaceX’s AI division just went from side project to cash machine. A multi-year computing infrastructure deal with Anthropic, valued at roughly $1.25 billion per month, is projected to add $15 billion in annual AI revenue to a division that pulled in just $3.2 billion the year prior.
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08 Jul 2026
AWS and Anthropic launch Claude Apps Gateway for Amazon Bedrock, giving enterprises a tighter grip on AI spending
Anthropic just made it a lot easier for enterprises to deploy Claude without losing sleep over runaway costs and credential management. The Claude Apps Gateway, now generally available on Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud, is a self-hosted control plane that lets organizations centrally manage how their teams interact with Claude Code, Anthropic’s desktop coding and collaboration tool.
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06 Jul 2026
Anthropic discovers Claude built itself a hidden thinking room during training
Anthropic just published research showing that its Claude model quietly built itself an internal workspace for thinking, and nobody told it to. The company calls it “J-space,” a secluded neural structure where Claude can reason through complex problems without any of that processing showing up in its actual output. Think of it like a whiteboard in a back office. Claude can scribble notes, work…
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02 Jul 2026
Microsoft faces investor concerns over Copilot’s technological lag
Microsoft built one of the most ambitious AI products in enterprise history, wrapped it inside the world’s most widely used productivity suite, and handed it to 450 million potential customers. Somehow, less than 4.5% of those customers are actually paying for it. That number, current as of May 2026, is the quiet center of a very loud investor concern. And it helps explain why Microsoft shed $357…
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01 Jul 2026
Jelani Nelson leaves UC Berkeley to join Anthropic as Member of Technical Staff
Jelani Nelson, one of the most respected theoretical computer scientists in the US, has left his post as Chair of the Computer Science Division at UC Berkeley’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences to join Anthropic. His new title: Member of Technical Staff. His start date: July 1, 2026.
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29 Jun 2026
Morgan Stanley warns of potential climax in silver, semiconductor markets
When silver miners and chip stocks start moving in lockstep, something interesting is happening. When Morgan Stanley’s top equity strategist calls it a potential peak, something interesting just became something urgent.
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24 Jun 2026
Agility reportedly planning to go public through $2.5B SPAC deal
Agility is planning to go public through a SPAC merger valued at roughly $2.5 billion, according to a report first surfaced via the Wall Street Journal. The deal, if completed, would land in the upper tier of recent SPAC transactions and place Agility among a growing cohort of companies choosing the blank-check route to public markets. Here’s the thing: the valuation figures floating around don’t…
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23 Jun 2026
US Commerce Secretary Lutnick signals action on Chinese robotics dominance
The United States is preparing to confront one of the more quietly consequential technology gaps of the past decade. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is signaling a serious push to counter Chinese dominance in robotics, with a roundtable, a formal government study, and a potential executive order all taking shape in 2026.
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18 Jun 2026
Anthropic’s Project Fetch shows Claude-assisted team finishing robodog coding in fraction of the time
Anthropic said Claude Opus 4.7 completed several robotics tasks far faster than human teams in a follow up to Project Fetch, an internal experiment using an off the shelf robotic quadruped.
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