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It is cliché at this point, but most people don’t realize how capable the current generation of AI systems in their harnesses really are (And, as opposed to previous times where non-lawyers or non-mathematicians were making these comments about law & math, now it is the experts)
https://x.com/emollick/status/2059431958447317381
Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation \ Anthropic
https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h
We’ve raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by @AltimeterCap, Dragoneer, @Greenoaks, and @sequoia. This investment will help us advance our research and expand our capacity to meet growing demand for Claude.
https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2060061347522433422
1/ We’ve raised over $1B at a $26B valuation, led by @Lux_Capital, @generalcatalyst, and @8vc. Our enterprise usage has grown >10x since the start of this year, and our run-rate revenue grew to $492 M. We launched Devin two years ago as the first AI software engineer. Since
https://x.com/cognition/status/2059660758531940856
Hyperscaler capital expenditures came in on trend in Q1 2026, continuing the trajectory that projects them spending $770 billion this year and over a trillion dollars in 2027.
https://x.com/EpochAIResearch/status/2060076222873526506
IBM Has a $10 Billion Plan to Build the Ultimate Quantum Computer – Barron’s
https://www.barrons.com/articles/ibm-stock-quantum-computing-aafbb1eb
OpenRouter more than doubles valuation to $1.3B in a year | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/openrouter-more-than-doubles-valuation-to-1-3b-in-a-year/
Let that sink in for a moment. DeepSeek v4 pro 75% discount. Permanent! In: $0.43 Out: $0.87 If you read the DeepSeek v4 tech paper you know that this model is insanely good when it comes to efficiency. Only 27% compute and only 10% cache compares to v3.2. SemiAnalysis wrote
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2057868472965640194
DeepSeek has made its temporary 75% price cut on the first-party V4 Pro API permanent, putting V4 Pro on the Pareto frontier of Intelligence Index vs Cost to Run Intelligence Index alongside V4 Flash @deepseek_ai’s first-party V4 Pro API is now $0.435/1M input, $0.87/1M output,
https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/2058021452465799403
DeepSeek is the only lab that is still trying to make intelligence too cheap to meter
https://x.com/scaling01/status/2057835507858518178
DeepSeek just made its 75% price cut on V4-Pro permanent. Xiaomi’s MiMo slashed V2.5 pricing by up to 99%, effective today. Most coverage frames this as a price war. The more interesting part is the engineering that makes these numbers sustainable. DeepSeek’s V4 paper describes
https://x.com/kimmonismus/status/2059578380329394292
DeepSeek made its 75% discount permanent. The AI price war just escalated.
https://thenextweb.com/news/deepseek-v4-pro-75-percent-price-cut-permanent
We are making our discount permanent! 🎉 Enjoy building with DeepSeek-V4-Pro and bring your innovative ideas to life! 🚀
https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/2057854261699195173
Former Google and Apple Researchers Launch a Startup to Build AI’s Missing Feedback Loop | WIRED
https://www.wired.com/story/ex-google-apple-ai-researchers-want-to-make-ai-that-gets-smarter-as-you-use-it/#selection-1837.465-1837.597
Former Google and Apple researchers launch Trajectory to enhance AI feedback loops
https://cryptobriefing.com/trajectory-ai-startup-google-apple-researchers/
Economic Futures in the Age of AI
https://openaifoundation.org/news/economic-futures-in-the-age-of-ai
We are thrilled to lead @AnthropicAI Series H! Anthropic is making intelligence ubiquitous and transforming how industries are thinking about operating. We have been in awe of their capacity to metabolize hard things and make it look easy, whether that’s unlocking research
https://x.com/AltimeterCap/status/2060061841372647685
AI sticker shock hits corporate America
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-costs
Big brain thinking is that product is the product
https://x.com/CoreAutoAI/status/2056442820022747444
Exclusive: Starbucks scraps AI inventory tool across North America | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/business/starbucks-scraps-ai-inventory-tool-across-north-america-2026-05-21/
if you replace billions with millions, this sounds like any other high-growth startup fundraise announcement 😉
https://x.com/jerryjliu0/status/2060068247773614238
OpenRouter, an Exchange for A.I. Models, Raises $113 Million – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/business/dealbook/openrouter-ai-models-fundraising.html
Scribe Optimize | See, understand, and improve work
https://scribe.com/optimize
Sources: Fireworks AI, which helps companies run AI models, is in talks to raise funding at a $15B valuation after being valued at $4B in October 2025 (@rebeccatorrenc5 / Bloomberg) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
https://x.com/Techmeme/status/2059437126727733459
Today I’m excited to share that Hark has raised $700M at a $6B valuation When I use these AI models today, they feel basic. They should be able to listen and talk naturally, understand vision, retain persistent memory, and become deeply personalized over time. They should be
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2057462134989263047
Today Reactor is coming out of stealth. We’ve raised $59M in Seed and Series A funding, led by @lightspeedvp, with participation from @AmplifyPartners, @wndrco, @Sky9Capital, and @FPVventures. Reactor is the platform for building in the World Model era: the infrastructure that
https://x.com/reactorworld/status/2060015607928819876
Today, Zyphra Research is sharing fundamental work extending Equilibrium Propagation beyond Energy-Based Models to biologically realistic neuron models. A step toward more efficient AI, local learning, and future hardware beyond backprop. 🧵
https://x.com/ZyphraAI/status/2057854519732847029
We aren’t going to do this again so quickly, are we? Rising demand results in higher costs. Higher costs result in lower demand. It is almost like some sort of equilibrium is being achieved. But there is no indication I see that companies are finding AI less valuable over time.
https://x.com/emollick/status/2059358336626176388
The fact that tokens went from something no one even put in a budget line a year ago to an absolute requirement for coding now is the cause of handwringing, not that AI is not turning out to be useful No one knows who should get tokens, how much they should get & how to control
https://x.com/emollick/status/2059640930265686158
Opinion | A.I. Is a Job Creator – The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/opinion/ai-job-crisis-goldman-sachs.html
Granola — The AI Notepad for back-to-back meetings
https://www.granola.ai/?via=adops-tldr-tech&dub_id=itx1yUOnpPaKx3A8
How did Tensor Cores massively increase the throughput of Nvidia chips? @reinerpope explains the fundamental idea, systolic arrays:
https://x.com/dwarkesh_sp/status/2058624353965908245
Today we’re announcing our $113M Series B led by @CapitalGVC. Over the last 6 months, weekly volume on OpenRouter grew from 5T to 25T tokens as AI rapidly shifts from experimentation into production. We’re excited for what comes next.
https://x.com/OpenRouter/status/2059277623629664758
London (157) has more YC companies than France + Germany + Sweden combined. I’ve been staring at this map for days. Which map? Jan-Willem Denys plotted every European Y Combinator company on a map. (Link below). 371 startups, 27 countries: London (157) has more Y Combinator
https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2059181749419102297
@Jason the two US companies that are most seriously pushing open models above 100B params are NVIDIA and Arcee
https://x.com/willccbb/status/2060122252931412034
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