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Chip stocks race towards biggest gains since dotcom era on AI demand

Philadelphia Semiconductor Index rides Big Tech’s data centre spending spree to 75% gains in 2026

Kirkland & Ellis to spend $500mn building its own AI technology

World’s highest-grossing law firm plans to put the ‘collective intelligence’ of its lawyers into a tech platform

How to close AI’s accountability loophole

Governance of new technologies must be determined by elected officials rather than fastest moving companies

Google engineer charged with insider trading after making $1.2M on Polymarket

According to the complaint, a Google engineer risked over $2.7 million on wagers related to Google's 2025 Year in Search campaign.

Why Google's AI can't spell Google (or anything else)

Google is embarrassing itself, again.

Nvidia chief Jensen Huang to join board at prestigious Beijing university

Chipmaker boss’s move to join Tim Cook-chaired board underlines push to maintain ties with China

A Shared Playbook for Trustworthy Third-Party Evaluations

What matters for effective independent evaluations of safeguards and capabilities for frontier models.

Vibe Check: Opus 4.8—Anthropic Should’ve Rounded Up to 5

Opus 4.8 tops both our Senior Engineer benchmark and our writing tests. It’s the most complete model we’ve tested. We just wish it had an app to match.

Introducing Claude Opus 4.8

We’re upgrading Claude Opus to a new version: Claude Opus 4.8. It builds on Opus 4.7 with improvements across benchmarks, and is a more effective collaborator. It’s available today for the same price.

Grok Build 0.1 on API

Grok Build 0.1, our fastest coding model, is now available via the xAI API in public beta.

Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, valuing the company at $965 billion post-money.