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Anthropic launches Claude for Small Business, targets 36 million SMBs
A new toggle inside Claude Cowork adds bookkeeping, ad generation, and integrations with QuickBooks, Canva, DocuSign, HubSpot, and PayPal.
Anthropic overtakes OpenAI on Ramp business spend, 34.4% to 32.3%
Ramp's May 2026 AI Index shows Anthropic leading paid enterprise adoption for the first time across a sample of 50,000+ companies.
NVIDIA partners with David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence on RL infrastructure
The London lab, founded by AlphaGo architect David Silver, will codesign reinforcement learning pipelines on Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin.
Data centers push into rural America with jobs math that doesn't add up
Maine's governor vetoed an 18-month data center moratorium citing 150 jobs at a Jay facility; a Texas study found net job creation closer to zero.
Medicare's new ACCESS payment model opens federal reimbursement to AI care
CMS picked 150 participants for a 10-year outcomes-based program built around AI agents like Pair Team's Flora.
Meta offers free WhatsApp access to rival AI chatbots to dodge EU fine
The concession would let competing AI assistants reach WhatsApp users directly, a structural shift for Meta's messaging platform in Europe.
SPAN pitches home-attached AI data center nodes in 100-home 2026 trial
The San Francisco startup wants 80,000 XFRA nodes in US homes by 2027, each packing 16 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs, in exchange for subsidized power.
Anthropic expands Claude for Legal as Harvey and Legora raise billions
New plugins and MCP connectors plug Claude into DocuSign, Box, and Westlaw as the legal AI race intensifies.
Anthropic disavows eight platforms selling access to its shares
With Anthropic reportedly raising at a $900B valuation, the company says SPV-based sales and forward contracts in its stock are void.
Google and SpaceX discuss orbital data centers ahead of $1.75T IPO
The talks tie Google's Project Suncatcher to SpaceX's launch capacity, with prototype satellites slated for 2027.
Amazon staff 'tokenmaxx' on internal MeshClaw tool to hit AI usage targets
Employees say they automate filler tasks to inflate token counts after Amazon set an 80% weekly AI usage target for developers.
NVIDIA and SAP embed OpenShell runtime into SAP Business AI Platform
The expanded partnership puts NVIDIA's open-source agent runtime under every SAP AI agent, with NemoClaw blueprints landing inside Joule Studio.
Vapi hits $500M valuation after Amazon Ring picks it over 40 AI voice rivals
Peak XV led a $50M Series B after Ring routed 100% of inbound calls through Vapi, which now processes up to 5M calls a day.
India IT shares slide to near three-year low as OpenAI fears resurface
Investors are again pricing in the risk that generative AI will compress demand for outsourced services from India's largest IT exporters.
OpenAI to cap Microsoft revenue-sharing at $38 billion, report says
The ceiling would limit how much of OpenAI's top line flows to its largest backer as the two restructure their decade-long partnership.
OpenAI commits $4B to new unit aimed at corporate AI deployments
The standalone group will focus on enterprise rollouts as OpenAI tries to convert ChatGPT's lead into recurring business revenue.
Cowboy Space raises $275M to build its own rockets for orbital AI data centers
Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt's startup is going vertical — rockets and satellites — to beat a launch-capacity bottleneck by 2028.
Cerebras lifts IPO price range to $150-$160 on strong demand
The AI chipmaker is raising its target ahead of pricing as order books fill, pushing Cerebras toward a richer public-market debut.
Wispr Flow's India growth hits 100% as Hinglish voice push lands
The Bay Area voice-input startup says India is now its second-largest market, with 14% of 2.5M global downloads and aggressive local pricing.
Nvidia commits $40B to AI equity deals in early 2026, led by $30B OpenAI bet
Seven multi-billion-dollar checks into public companies and two dozen private rounds put Nvidia at the center of the AI capital cycle.
Anthropic signs $1.8B cloud deal with Akamai to expand Claude capacity
The agreement adds another infrastructure partner for Anthropic as Claude demand outpaces existing compute commitments with Amazon and Google.
Sony tells investors AI tools will accelerate the flood of new games
PlayStation CEO Hideaki Nishino says AI animation work that took hours now finishes in a fraction of a second.
Intel stock is up 490% in a year as Lip-Bu Tan courts Apple, Tesla, and Musk
Wall Street is pricing a turnaround that hasn't shown up in chip yields yet, with TSMC still ahead and execution thin on specifics.
Anthropic Targets $1 Trillion Valuation as IPO Bankers Pitch $400bn-$500bn Listing
Sovereign wealth funds, Google and Amazon are backing a fresh Anthropic round as Goldman and JPMorgan circle a late-2026 public offering.
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