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Anthropic's $65B Series H pushes valuation toward $1 trillion [Xtra!]Anthropic is now funded like a sovereign wealth fund, not a startup.
Claude Opus 4.8 lands with dynamic workflows for Claude Code [Xtra!]Incremental model gains, but real new agentic tooling for developers.
MiniMax teases M3 with new sparse attention [Xtra!]Open-weight labs are chasing dramatic long-context inference speedups, not just bigger benchmarks.
Microsoft tries to get back in the AI coding game [Xtra!]Microsoft doesn't want to be entirely dependent on partner models for its core developer tooling.
Apple reportedly distilling Gemini to run Siri on-device [Xtra!]Apple is leaning on Google's Gemini rather than its own foundation models to fix Siri.
ByteDance to design its own AI chips [Xtra!]Another hyperscaler-adjacent giant is hedging against Nvidia supply and export constraints.