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🧠 Anthropic Raises $30B
$380B company... already?
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💰 Anthropic raises $30B and turns AI into sovereign infrastructure
🚀 xAI reorganizes, drops layoffs, talks moon data centers
🎧 Spotify engineers stop coding and start prompting
⚡ Claude Co-work starts controlling your computer
Anthropic closed a $30 billion Series G round, bringing its valuation to $380 billion, up from $183 billion.
This round was led by sovereign and mega funds, which signals that foundation models are now seen as core infrastructure, not startup bets.
The valuation jump shows investors believe multiple large model providers can coexist at massive scale.
Anthropic is positioning Claude as enterprise critical software, not a consumer AI tool.
The model layer is becoming geopolitically strategic, with national capital backing AI companies.
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xAI publicly released a 45-minute all-hands meeting that confirmed layoffs, restructuring and new product details.
Musk said layoffs were part of a reorganization, suggesting internal scaling pressures.
xAI is now divided into four teams focused on Grok, coding, video generation and a broad automation project called Macrohard.
The company claims massive usage numbers, but recent deepfake surges on X make it hard to judge real value.
Musk reiterated plans for space-based data centers, signaling long-term ambitions to control compute infrastructure.
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Spotify’s co-CEO said its best developers have not written code since December and now rely heavily on AI tools.
Engineers use an internal system to prompt AI to fix bugs and ship features remotely.
Spotify says AI has significantly increased product speed and deployment velocity.
The company believes its music taste dataset is a defensible moat that generic models cannot replicate.
AI has moved from experimentation to a core part of Spotify’s engineering workflow.
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Claude Co-work turns Claude from a chatbot into an assistant that actually does your work. It reorganizes folders, controls your browser, sends iMessages, answers course comments, and builds PowerPoint slides while showing a live progress panel and asking permission.
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🔁 ICYMI
🌕 Elon Musk wants to build a Moon factory for AI satellites - a compute strategy to escape Earth’s data center limits, even as six xAI founders leave and legal ownership of lunar resources remains unclear.
🤖 Greg Isenberg breaks down Claude Code’s Co-work mode - it organizes files, extracts receipts, controls your browser, runs plan-first tasks. 👉 Watch the video
🍸️ The 2026 Super Bowl featured AI-created ads including SVEDKA’s “Shake Your Bots Off,” showing AI has officially entered mainstream marketing.
😎 Claude subtly roasted other AI platforms with its ad “Can I get a six pack quickly?”
📈 This Think Media episode explains why personal branding is different in 2026 👉 Watch the episode
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