Monday's AI Briefing

May 25, 2026 · 15 stories curated from across the AI landscape

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Business

Anthropic Set to Close Second $30 Billion Round at $900 Billion-Plus Valuation

Three months ago, Anthropic closed a $30 billion Series G that valued the Claude maker at $380 billion. This week, the company is poised...

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Business

Anthropic Set to Close Second $30 Billion Round at $900 Billion-Plus Valuation

Three months ago, Anthropic closed a $30 billion Series G that valued the Claude maker at $380 billion. This week, the company is poised...

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NextEra Energy Acquires Dominion in $67 Billion Merger to Power AI Grid

The largest utility merger in American history is no longer a hypothetical stress test for energy analysts -- it is a signed deal sh...

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JPMorgan Chase Reclassifies AI From Experimental R&D to Core Infrastructure

The world's largest bank has stopped treating artificial intelligence as an experiment. JPMorgan Chase has formally reclassified its...

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Adobe Canva and CapCut Integrate Google Gemini for Seamless Creative Workflows

In the span of just four days following Google I/O 2026, three of the largest names in consumer creative software announced na...

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Anthropic Eyes Microsoft Maia 200 Chip as Fifth Silicon Partner

Anthropic is in early-stage negotiations with Microsoft to run its Claude models on Azure servers powered by the Maia 200...

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LLMs & GenAI

OpenAI Codex Now Controls Mac While Locked Expanding Agent Autonomy

Your Mac no longer needs you sitting in front of it for an AI agent to get work done. OpenAI announced that its...

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Google TurboQuant Achieves 6x KV Cache Compression With Zero Accuracy Loss

The training-free algorithm squeezes LLM key-value caches down to 3 bits per coordinate, delivering up to 8x faster attention on H...

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Pentagon Tests OpenAI and Google AI Models to Potentially Replace Claude in Defense

The U.S. Department of Defense is running a live bake-off between frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and xAI after blacklisting...

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Enterprise AI Adoption Hits Wall as 79 Percent of Organizations Face Challenges

Nearly every large company has deployed an AI agent in the past year. Nearly four in five say the process is tearing them apart....

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Alteryx Unveils Agent Studio Turning Business Analysts Into AI Agent Builders

At its annual Inspire conference, Alteryx made a bold bet on who should be building the next generation of enterprise...

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Research

Penn Researchers Introduce Mollifier Layers to Solve Inverse PDEs With Neural Networks

Sometimes the biggest breakthroughs in AI come not from building bigger models, but from reaching back into the history of...

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Medtronic Hugo Surgical Robot Wins FDA Clearance and Completes First US Cases

For the first time in more than two decades, a major medtech company has brought a new robotic surgery platform to the US market...

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Specific AI Unveils Global B2B Workforce Platform at Silicon Valley Startup Grind

A Hong Kong-based startup wants to become the infrastructure layer for international business -- one AI teammate at a time....

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Policy

Connecticut Passes One of the Most Comprehensive AI Laws in the Nation

On May 1, Connecticut lawmakers sent one of the most ambitious state-level AI bills in the country to the Governor's desk....

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AI-Generated Deepfake Attack Ads Spread Across Early Voting States

As South Carolina opens early voting for its state primaries, voters scrolling their phones will encounter something new this cycle...

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