Cognition's $25B Valuation & China's AI Talent Lockdown

Anthropic's IPO Filing & Microsoft's Break from OpenAI

Anthropic beats OpenAI to the IPO filing while Microsoft launches its first in-house coding model for GitHub Copilot. Plus: Uber's AI spending crisis, a Stanford study showing AI outperforming law professors, and Google's new fake call detection for AI voice scams.

Alphabet's $80B AI Raise & Florida Sues OpenAI

Alphabet raises $80 billion for AI infrastructure with a landmark investment from Berkshire Hathaway. Florida becomes the first state to sue OpenAI over AI safety concerns. Plus NVIDIA's RTX Spark superchip, OpenAI on AWS, and an AI weather startup out-forecasting government agencies.

China's AI Unicorn & GitHub's Pricing Shake-Up

Today's AI news: Chinese 3D startup Vast hits unicorn status, GitHub Copilot switches to token billing, a serious ChatGPT for Google Sheets vulnerability, Erin Brockovich's data center transparency map, and a new image model that runs on iPhones.

Anthropic's $965B Valuation & Protein AI Beats AlphaFold

Today's top AI stories: Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, Claude Opus 4.8 launches with dynamic workflows, CZI Biohub releases open-source protein model surpassing AlphaFold3, and more including the mystery of Hy3's popularity, Apple's leaked Siri plans, and Visa's agentic payments investment.

Cognition's $25B Valuation & China's AI Talent Lockdown

Cognition raises $1B at $25B valuation for its AI coding agent Devin. China restricts travel for top AI researchers as the US-China model gap shrinks to 2.7%. Plus: Snowflake's $6B AWS deal, ElevenLabs' genre-switching music model, Robinhood's AI trading agents, and the warning about "AI psychosis" in tech executive suites.