16 Jun 2026
Anthropic’s latest feud with the Trump admin may actually help it, sales data suggests
Anthropic is having a month. The AI lab finished May by surpassing OpenAI in market share of business spending for the first time, Ramp just revealed.
Julie Bort
2026
16 Jun 2026
Why Anthropic Is Fighting With Trump (Again)
Anthropic’s roller-coaster year continues. The artificial intelligence firm announced late Friday that it was disabling its two newest large language models just three days after launching them, citing new export controls that had just been imposed by the U.S. government that prevent any foreign nationals from using those models.
Rishi Iyengar
2026
16 Jun 2026
OpenAI Just Started Selling What Your Consulting Business Sells
On May 11, 2026, the open source AI consulting competition for small business advisers was implemented. A new AI consulting business for big firms called OpenAI Deployment Company was established by OpenAI with over $4 Billion in backing . TPG leads the partnership, with Advent, Bain Capital and Brookfield serving as co-lead founding partners. In addition, OpenAI agreed to acquire UK-based AI…
Terdawn Deboe
2026
16 Jun 2026
SpaceX Buys Cursor In Largest Startup Acquisition Ever At $60 Billion
SpaceX just executed the largest acquisition of a venture-backed startup in history, exercising its option to buy Cursor parent Anysphere for $60 billion in an all-stock deal that pulls a rocket company straight into the center of the AI coding war.
Sandy Carter
2026
16 Jun 2026
3 Ways to Invest in Anthropic Before It Goes Public
Anthropic's upcoming initial public offering will be one of the most closely watched artificial intelligence (AI) listings on Wall Street. According to Reuters, the company has confidentially filed for an IPO in the U.S., after raising $65 billion in funding at a valuation near $965 billion in May. With its annualized revenue reportedly reaching $47 billion as of early May and demand for…
CFA, Manali Pradhan
2026
16 Jun 2026
‘Dangerous’ AI Models Are Coming No Matter What
Late last week, Anthropic took its new Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline following a United States government export-control directive barring “any foreign national” from using the services.
@wired, Lily Hay Newman
2026
16 Jun 2026
Meet two North Texas venture capital leaders who won big on SpaceX's historic IPO
SpaceX Starship No. 33 is seen in December at the Massey test site. Courtesy SpaceX Phil Scully grew up milking cows on a dairy farm in New Hampshire and goes to Burning Man in his free time. On Friday, his Dallas-based space and defense tech venture capital firm racked in a fortune from SpaceX’s Wall Street debut.
Charlotte Kramon
2026
16 Jun 2026
MANGOS Or Fab 10? SpaceX's IPO Sparks A Scramble To Rename Big Tech Stocks
Topline SpaceX's blockbuster Nasdaq debut has vaulted it past three Magnificent 7 members by market cap in its second full day of trading, fueling a Wall Street scramble to retire the acronym in favor of new labels, including the social media viral "MANGOS" and Vanda Research's "Fab 10"—neither of which most investors can fully buy, since marquee members OpenAI and Anthropic remain private.
Alicia Park
2026
16 Jun 2026
Elon's super currency: SpaceX' surging stock paid for the $60 billion Cursor acquisition in just a few hours of trading
SpaceX’s stunning IPO pop has driven Elon Musk’s net worth to astronomical levels. It’s also given him an extraordinary business tool: a supercurrency for mergers and acquisitions.
Lily Mae Lazarus
2026
