Google Throws the Kitchen Sink, the FDE Land Grab Spreads, & Anthropic's $900B While Customers Wait for $68B in Value

Google crams AI into everything, the FDE hiring war jumps from the labs to the platforms, and Anthropic passes OpenAI at $900B valuation

May 21 • Rome Thorndike and AI News Digest

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Coinbase Pays for the AI Layoff Optics, the FDE Wars Begin, & Google Front-Runs Apple's WWDC

Coinbase has an outage after citing AI for layoffs, OpenAI and Google hire armies of "Forward Deployed Engineers", and Google runs Android Show before…

May 15 • Rome Thorndike and AI News Digest

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Anthropic Is Google Cloud's Growth Engine, Runs to SpaceX for Compute, & Skips the Consultants

Google Cloud's growth matches Anthropic's growth, Musk monetizes excess Colossus 1 capacity with Anthropic, and the labs are vertically integrating…

May 8 • Rome Thorndike and AI News Digest

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April 2026

OpenAI Didn't Leave the UK Because of Energy Costs, Meta Bets Every Dollar of Cash Flow, & Anthropic Is Quietly Nerfing Claude

OpenAI signed Stargate UK knowing the costs, Meta assembles a complete data center org in five days, and Anthropic is feeding the enterprise by…

Apr 19 • Rome Thorndike and AI News Digest

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Anthropic's Best Model Is Enterprise-Only, OpenAI Buys Another Distraction with TBPN, & AI Agents Are Breaking the Internet

Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model finds bugs faster than humans can patch them, OpenAI spends hundreds of millions on a tech talk show, and GitHub…

Apr 10 • Rome Thorndike and AI News Digest

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March 2026

Alibaba Loses AI Prodigy, OpenAI Preempts DeepSeek in Congress, & GPT-5.4 Launches Into a Boycott

Alibaba bleeds AI talent, DeepSeek faces theft allegations, and OpenAI's best launch gets overshadowed

Mar 12 • AI News Digest and Rome Thorndike

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February 2026

Salesforce's Agentforce Mirage, Anthropic's Pentagon Standoff, & OpenAI's Cerebras Cost Play

Salesforce inflates Agentforce with a bundling trick while leadership walks out, Anthropic risks a supply chain risk label after questioning a U.S…

Feb 19 • AI News Digest and Rome Thorndike

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Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad Backfires, $30B Round Closes at $380B, & Half of xAI's Founders Quit

Anthropic poisoned the AI well for 93% of viewers who don't know Claude, Nvidia and Microsoft fund both sides of the AI race, and Musk cleans house…

Feb 13 • AI News Digest and Rome Thorndike

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Liquid Neural Networks: The Architecture That Adapts After Training & Why AMD Bet $250M on It

Most AI models freeze after training. Liquid neural networks keep adjusting in real time, and the startup commercializing them just became a $2 billion…

Feb 13 • AI News Digest and Rome Thorndike

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Musk Bets $1.25T Merger on Space Data Centers, Anthropic's Legal Plugin Wipes $285B, & OpenAI Retires GPT-4o

Musk pairs rockets with AI in history's largest merger, Anthropic crashes legal stocks by launching workflow tools, and OpenAI follows through with…

Feb 5 • AI News Digest and Rome Thorndike

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LMArena's $100M Raise, Claude's Benchmark Surge, & Why AI Leaderboards Shape the Market

A UC Berkeley side project became the AI industry's default ranking system, and its leaderboard positions now influence which models win enterprise…

Feb 4 • AI News Digest and Rome Thorndike

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AWS Startup Programs, Cloud Credits, & the Real Game Behind AI Startup Funding

The cloud giants are giving away billions in free compute to AI startups, but the credits are a loss leader designed to lock in the next Anthropic…

Feb 3 • AI News Digest and Rome Thorndike

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