Thursday • 28 May 2026
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28 May 2026
Anthropic raises $65 Billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO
Anthropic just closed a staggering $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion post-money valuation, cementing its position as the second-most valuable AI company after OpenAI. With an IPO reportedly on the horizon, this round signals that investor appetite for frontier AI remains insatiable — and that the Claude-maker is gearing up for a public market debut that could reshape the entire tech landscape.
28 May 2026
Anthropic releases Opus 4.8 with new ‘dynamic workflow’ tool
Anthropic unveiled Claude Opus 4.8 alongside a new ‘Dynamic Workflows’ tool designed to coordinate swarms of subagents, pushing further into agentic AI territory. The release also emphasizes ‘honesty’ improvements, with the model trained to flag uncertainty rather than confidently fabricate progress — a direct response to one of the biggest pain points in deploying LLMs for real work.
28 May 2026
CNN sues Perplexity over ‘verbatim’ copycat articles
CNN is suing Perplexity, alleging the AI search startup produces ‘verbatim’ copies of its articles and bypasses its paywall by ignoring crawler blocks. The case joins a growing wave of publisher lawsuits that could fundamentally reshape how AI answer engines source content — and whether companies like Perplexity have a viable business model at all.
28 May 2026
Google Pay preps for AI agents with Universal Commerce Protocol
Google is rebuilding Google Pay around AI agents with a new Universal Commerce Protocol that positions it as the clearinghouse for autonomous transactions. As agentic commerce moves from concept to reality, this move puts Google in direct competition with similar efforts from OpenAI, Stripe, and Visa to own the rails of the agent economy.
27 May 2026
Robinhood will let your AI agent trade stocks and make (or lose) lots of money
Robinhood is now allowing users to fund dedicated accounts that AI agents can use to autonomously buy and sell stocks. It’s one of the most consequential deployments of agentic AI to date — giving algorithms direct control over consumer portfolios, with all the regulatory, ethical, and financial risk that entails.
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