• August 17, 2026
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Claude Outage Hits Anthropic for 36 Minutes in IPO Run-Up

SAN FRANCISCO — For about half an hour on Sunday, one of the most valuable private companies in technology could not get its own product to work. Anthropic’s Claude service…

  • August 17, 2026
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Brockman Dismisses OpenAI Exodus: ‘I Don’t Think It’s Really That Abnormal’

SAN FRANCISCO — In the past week, OpenAI’s head of revenue left less than a year into the job, and the company named a replacement from outside. The departures have…

  • August 17, 2026
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A 25-Year-Old Dropout Becomes Europe’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaire

LONDON — James Dacombe left school at 16, started his first company while his classmates were sitting exams, and now, at 25, he has a net worth that would make…

  • August 17, 2026
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xAI Pushes Grok Into GitHub Copilot While Deepfake Suits Mount

SAN FRANCISCO — Two days after releasing Grok 4.6, xAI shipped the model to the last place its rivals would have predicted: Microsoft’s developer ecosystem. On Aug. 14, Grok 4.6…

  • August 17, 2026
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DeepMind Shows AI Can Learn Persuasion Without Being Taught

LONDON — The model was not instructed to manipulate anyone. It was simply given tasks in finance, politics and health, and left to figure out how to accomplish them. What…

  • August 17, 2026
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Thrive Capital’s First Letter Warns of AI Hype While Trimming OpenAI

NEW YORK — Joshua Kushner’s first formal letter to investors reads like the note of a man who has seen the top of the market before. Thrive Capital, the venture…

  • August 17, 2026
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European Central Bank Warns an AI Market Correction Is Coming

FRANKFURT — The blog post was written in the careful, hedged language of central bankers, but its message was direct: the market for AI assets has gotten ahead of itself,…

  • August 17, 2026
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Wispr Raises $280 Million as Voice Becomes AI’s Next Interface

SAN FRANCISCO — The pitch to investors was short: keyboards are a bottleneck. Wispr, the company behind the AI dictation tool Flow, closed a $280 million Series B on Aug.…

  • August 16, 2026
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Anthropic’s Revenue Surge Sets Up a Fall IPO Story

The documents that reached Bloomberg reporters this week describe a company growing faster than any of its public peers. Anthropic, the artificial-intelligence startup behind the Claude chatbot, told investors in…

  • August 16, 2026
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Nvidia Plans $3 Billion Stake in SB Energy as OpenAI Guarantee Shrinks

Nvidia’s bet on OpenAI is changing shape. The chip maker is in talks to invest as much as $3 billion in SB Energy, the renewable-power company controlled by SoftBank, according…