Latest updates from the world of artificial intelligence
A revised Anthropic privacy policy, effective July 8, lets U.S. citizens reclaim access to the banned Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by verifying citizenship with a government ID — but enterprise customers get no such path.
CIO
Read more →On June 17 Anthropic opened a Korea office led by KiYoung Choi and named a deep roster of partners — NAVER has deployed Claude Code across its entire engineering org, while Samsung SDS, LG CNS, Nexon, Hanwha and a KAIST-led university consortium are all building on Claude.
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Read more →On the day it was set to take effect, Anthropic paused its plan to move Claude Agent SDK, claude -p, GitHub Actions and third-party agent usage off subscriptions into a metered credit pool. Usage stays on regular Pro and Max plans “for now” — a retreat shaped by developer backlash, a looming OpenAI price war and an approaching IPO.
The Decoder
Read more →SpaceX confirmed a definitive all-stock agreement on June 16 to acquire Anysphere, the maker of Cursor, at a $60 billion valuation — routed through a subsidiary so no IPO cash is touched. The deal hands Musk’s xAI a top AI-coding tool, is set to close in Q3, and carries a $4 billion antitrust break fee.
Yahoo Finance
Read more →Audited figures reported by the Financial Times show OpenAI spent about $34 billion in 2025 — roughly $19 billion on R&D alone — against $13 billion in revenue, while a one-off accounting charge pushed its net loss near $39 billion, just as the company files to go public at up to $1 trillion.
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Bengaluru’s Sarvam AI has raised $234 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, joining India’s unicorn club on the strength of foundation models built for Indian languages. IT services giant HCLTech led with $150 million, and the cash will fund Sarvam’s next frontier model and a push into agentic, coding and cybersecurity workloads.
TechCrunch
Read more →New reporting from Axios and The Information says Amazon CEO Andy Jassy personally alerted the Treasury secretary to a claimed Fable 5 jailbreak, and at least five other companies piled on — setting off the export-control order that darkened Anthropic’s flagship within hours.
Axios
Read more →More American companies are now paying for Claude than for ChatGPT, according to the Ramp AI Index — the first crossover since the generative-AI race began, capping a year in which Anthropic quadrupled its enterprise footprint.
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OpenAI is buying Ona — the German cloud startup formerly known as Gitpod — to give its Codex agents secure, persistent environments that run inside a company’s own infrastructure, a direct answer to enterprise fears about turning autonomous coders loose.
The Next Web
Read more →Three days after launch, Anthropic disabled Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer to comply with a Commerce Department order that bars foreign-national access on national-security grounds. The company calls it a misunderstanding over a "minor" jailbreak and is fighting to restore access.
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Seven months after launching with $6.2B, Jeff Bezos's industrial-AI startup has raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation. Its mission, co-CEO Bezos insists, has 'nothing to do with robotics' — it's AI for engineering, manufacturing, and drug design.
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Anthropic brought its Code with Claude developer conference to Tokyo on June 10 — its first stop in Asia-Pacific — with three tracks on research, the Claude platform, and Claude Code, plus an Extended builder day on June 11. The move plants a flag in Japan's enterprise market before rivals do.
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The Beijing startup behind the Kimi chatbot is in talks to raise up to $2 billion at a $30 billion valuation — its third financing in half a year. In December it was worth $4.3 billion. The leap captures just how hot China's AI funding race has become.
TechNode
Read more →The London startup behind "Large Physics Models" — pretrained AI for high-fidelity engineering simulation — closed an oversubscribed $300 million Series C at a $2.4 billion valuation, led by Temasek with backing from NVIDIA, Siemens, and Applied Materials.
PhysicsX
Read more →On the same day it confirmed a confidential IPO filing, OpenAI published a manifesto from Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki declaring a "third phase" built on three goals — an automated AI researcher, accelerating the economy, and a personal AGI for every person on Earth.
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Flourish, co-founded by Internet Explorer creator Thomas Reardon, raised $500 million at a $2.5 billion valuation to reverse-engineer the brain's 'core algorithm' — betting that neuroscience, not more silicon, is the way past AI's energy wall.
SiliconANGLE
Read more →The enterprise market-intelligence platform nearly doubled its valuation to $7.5 billion, crossed $600 million in annual recurring revenue, and made Accenture its first strategic channel partner — while launching an always-on research agent called SuperAnalyst.
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AI music startup Suno closed a $400 million Series D at a $5.4 billion valuation — more than double its worth seven months ago. The round arrives as the company settles with Warner Music and tries to turn a copyright fight into a licensing business.
Variety
Read more →Robotics startup Generalist AI raised $400 million in a round led by Radical Ventures, reaching a $2 billion valuation. The Nvidia- and Bezos-backed company is building general-purpose foundation models meant to serve as a shared “brain” across many different robots.
SiliconANGLE
Read more →More than 80% of the code Anthropic merges into production is now authored by Claude, up from low single digits before Claude Code launched — and leaders say some products are effectively 100% Claude-written. But Anthropic draws a careful line: this is not yet recursive self-improvement, even as it warns that moment “could come sooner than most institutions are prepared for.”
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Anthropic is adding ~150 Glasswing partners across power, water, healthcare and communications — quadrupling the program to ~200 organizations as it warns that Mythos-class cyber capability will be replicated within 6–12 months.
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Read more →Google’s parent will sell roughly $80B in stock to fund AI infrastructure as demand outstrips supply — including a $10B private placement to Berkshire Hathaway, with 2026 capex guided to $180–190B.
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Anthropic submitted a confidential draft S-1 to the SEC on June 1, days after a $65B round lifted it to a $965B valuation — setting up a three-way IPO race with OpenAI and SpaceX.
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Vast, the Beijing startup behind Tripo AI, has raised nearly $200 million at a valuation above $1 billion, making it China's newest AI unicorn. Founded by Gen-Z gamer Simon Song, Vast turns text and image prompts into production-ready 3D models for games, film and manufacturing — and already counts NetEase and Sony among its customers.
Bloomberg
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