29 May 2026
Anthropic’s Seven Cofounders Are Now Worth A Combined $116 Billion
When Anthropic announced on Thursday that it had raised $65 billion at an eye-watering valuation of $965 billion, it didn’t just become the most valuable AI startup in the world, eclipsing $852 billion-valued archrival OpenAI. It also ballooned the individual fortunes of Anthropic’s seven cofounders — more than doubling their net worths to $16.6 billion apiece, Forbes estimates.
29 May 2026
ChatGPhish Vulnerability Turns ChatGPT Web Summaries Into a Phishing Surface
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in OpenAI ChatGPT that leverages the artificial intelligence (AI) assistant's implicit trust in Markdown links and images to trigger prompt injections and open the door to phishing attacks. The technique has been codenamed ChatGPhish by Permiso Security.
29 May 2026
Exclusive: Microsoft is building a super app that combines coding, chat, and other Copilot AI tools
Microsoft needs to solve a nagging problem: It has various Copilot AI assistants throughout its portfolio of products, irking customers who seek a single destination.
29 May 2026
The Metaverse and its ghost towns: Why social VR apps are struggling
On June 1, 2026, at 9 p.m., the social VR platform “Rec Room” will pull the plug after ten years. A few weeks earlier, in March 2026, Meta had announced the end of “Horizon Worlds” in its current form. The company had sunk a significant portion of its double-digit billion-dollar budget into this platform to build a metaverse, including the necessary hardware. What was marketed a few years ago as…
29 May 2026
Is Phoebe Gates’s Phia the Most Celeb-Backed Shopping Startup of All Time?
Phia, the AI shopping app launched in April 2025 by Phoebe Gates and Sophia Kianni, wants to win the AI shopping race. Phia’s browser extension tool scans the internet while you shop, offering alternatives to whatever product you’re looking at, like a similar item at a better price or the same pair of pants available secondhand on Ebay; it’s designed to be a smarter shopping companion.
29 May 2026
Anthropic soars to $965bn valuation, leapfrogging OpenAI
Claude maker raises $65bn from investors ahead of expected initial public offering. Anthropic has usurped OpenAI as the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence startup, soaring to a $965bn valuation ahead of expected public listings by the rival firms.
28 May 2026
Student commencement boos are a sign of wider AI woes
As companies race to weave AI into nearly every industry, some college students are responding with open hostility. At at least three college commencement ceremonies this month, graduates loudly booed invited speakers who praised AI.
28 May 2026
How to Watch Apple's WWDC 2026 Keynote: What to Expect from iOS 27
Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference kicks off on June 8 at Apple Park in Cupertino, California. It's Apple's big annual software event that is geared toward developers, but still gives us an idea of new hardware and software to come.
28 May 2026
Anthropic: San Francisco AI company vaults to a $965 billion valuation with new funding as Claude demand surges
SAN FRANCISCO -- Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said Thursday it raised $65 billion in private funding that will push its valuation to $965 billion, a whopping number that makes the five-year-old maker of the Claude chatbot one of the world's most valuable startups as it careens toward a likely Wall Street debut.
