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Policy2026-06-27 · source-backed
Bloomberg reports OpenAI is considering an IPO as soon as 2027 and that its leadership expects Anthropic to debut publicly first, though both have already filed confidentially with the SEC. (Bloomberg) Public markets sharpen the two-horse race and bring disclosure requirements that'll finally put real numbers behind the frontier-lab economics we've all been guessing at.
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OpenAI confirmed the SEC submission on June 8, its first formal IPO step, with Goldman and Morgan Stanley underwriting and ChatGPT cited at ~900M weekly users. It follows Anthropic's own confidential S-1 on June 1. The same week OpenAI also published a "Built to Benefit Everyo...
Bloomberg reported this morning that Microsoft has begun swapping OpenAI and Anthropic models for its own MAI models inside Excel and Outlook, with tens of thousands of prompts a week now running on MAI. Source. Read that number carefully. Tens of thousands of prompts a week i...
Per a French presidency list reported by Bloomberg, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis are slated to attend. The frontier-lab leaders are now physically in the room where global AI governance gets debated. Whatever you think of that, it's where the rules will get sha...
The FT reported Chloé Bakalar departed after joining in August 2025, under a year, with no announcement and no plans to fill the role (FT). She came from Meta, where she was Chief Ethicist from November 2021 to August 2025, and worked on model development ethics, human-AI inte...
Three separate things happened in about 36 hours, and together they mark the week the pacing debate stopped being a debate among labs. Trump posted on Truth Social that AI safety concerns are a "HOAX" and that the only control or guardrails AI needs is a "STRONG AND SMART (Hig...
If you wrote an MCP server before July, it's on a protocol shape the maintainers have already removed. Not deprecated-with-a-migration-window. Removed from the spec. MCP lead maintainers David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky published an updated roadmap on August 22, and the re...
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