AI in 15 — May 19, 2026

AI in 15 — May 29, 2026

Sixty-five billion dollars raised in a single round. A nine hundred sixty-five billion dollar valuation. One Apple-sized leap away from a trillion. And Anthropic shipped it on the same day they confirmed they have a higher-tier model so capable they cannot release it yet because the cyber risk is too high.

AI in 15 — May 28, 2026

Eight hundred thousand devs burning a thousand dollars a month in API tokens, three of the Big Four consulting firms standardized on Claude, and DuckDuckGo's no-AI search page up twenty-eight percent in a single week. The bubble debate is now playing out as two simultaneous arguments — about substance, and about saturation — and today's news cycle ran both at full volume.

AI in 15 — May 27, 2026

Ten thousand zero-day vulnerabilities. Across every major operating system, every major browser. And a twenty-seven-year-old bug in OpenBSD — the most security-paranoid operating system on Earth — that thousands of expert eyes missed for nearly three decades. An AI found it in weeks.

AI in 15 — May 26, 2026

Five days. That's how long it took a small team of human security researchers, working alongside a preview of Anthropic's Claude Mythos model, to find a kernel-level zero day in macOS, chain it into a privilege escalation exploit, and walk it through to a patch. Apple shipped the fix yesterday and named Claude in the CVE advisory. That has never happened before.

AI in 15 — May 25, 2026

A Pope just published a forty-thousand-word encyclical on artificial intelligence, presenting it personally alongside an Anthropic co-founder. On the same morning, OpenAI confidentially filed for what could be a one-trillion-dollar IPO, and the largest utility merger in U.S. history closed around one fact — AI data centers need more electricity than America currently knows how to build.