In five days Anthropic’s Q1 revenue grew 80-fold to a reported $44B annual run rate, the company committed $200B to Google Cloud, signed a SpaceX compute deal, shipped Claude Code Auto Mode, and launched ten financial-services agents with Jamie Dimon. In the same week the EU finally struck an AI Act compliance deal, the first…

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OpenAI took $10B from a 19-firm Wall Street consortium. Anthropic is closing $1.5B from Blackstone, Goldman, and Hellman & Friedman. Same rooms, different portfolios. The week AI’s go-to-market stopped being SaaS and started being private equity.

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Quick Hits Musk takes the stand in the OpenAI trial: “If we make it OK to loot…” — Jury selection wrapped Monday; Musk testified Tuesday in the $134B suit to return OpenAI’s assets to the nonprofit and oust Altman. Live coverage tracked every hour. The case will set the legal template for what counts as…

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This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week we skip a century and try to picture what life actually looks like when the stuff we’re building now has had time to settle in. This week: the billionaires who broke the economy want to pay you to shut up about it.

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Apple handed the next decade to a silicon engineer. Bezos hit $38B in five months. Brin came out of retirement to code. When the founders stop delegating AI, the stakes have passed the point of no return.

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Watch & Listen First Jensen Huang on Dwarkesh: The $4 Trillion Company · Listen on Spotify -> Huang on TPU competition, why Anthropic drove “100% of TPU growth”, and why Nvidia’s supply-chain moat is harder to copy than any benchmark. The best single piece of context for everything else below. Simon Willison on Lenny’s Podcast…

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Quick Hits Chery sells humanoid robot to consumers for $42,000: The Chinese automaker ships the first mass-market humanoid. A car company is now a robotics company. The price will halve by next year. Claude Code Routines launches: Hit 686 points on Hacker News. Automate repetitive dev workflows wit

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This is 100 Years From Now, a weekly series. Once a week, we skip ahead a century and imagine ordinary life in a world that’s had a hundred years to absorb the things we’re only beginning to build. No predictions — just honest speculation about where our choices lead. This week: what happens when accountability…

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Four attack vectors, one week. The npm packages your app depends on were compromised by a nation-state. A data center got its GPS coordinates published by a military. AI agents were weaponized for espionage. And frontier models learned to lie to protect each other from shutdown. These are not hypotheticals — they have CVE numbers,…

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Three seismic shifts in one week. Anthropic’s revenue run rate passed OpenAI’s — $30 billion to $24 billion — powered by enterprise demand that doubled its million-dollar customers in under two months. Meta launched its first proprietary model under Alexandr Wang’s Superintelligence Labs, abandoning the open-source ethos that defined Llama. And the legal apparatus around…

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