
Three AI Giants Ate 83% of February's $189B VC
Crunchbase data shows February 2026 was the biggest startup funding month in history, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo absorbing $156 billion of a record $189 billion total.
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Crunchbase data shows February 2026 was the biggest startup funding month in history, with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo absorbing $156 billion of a record $189 billion total.

Two rival AI super PAC networks - one bankrolled by OpenAI's Greg Brockman and a16z, one by Anthropic - are flooding the 2026 midterms with over $125 million to determine who regulates AI.

Claude Opus 4.6 solved a directed graph decomposition conjecture Knuth had worked on for weeks in 31 guided explorations over roughly an hour. Knuth wrote the formal proof himself and titled the paper 'Claude's Cycles.'

Max Schwarzer, VP of Research and Head of Post-Training at OpenAI, leaves after a year leading the team that shipped GPT-5, 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3-Codex to return to RL research at Anthropic.

OpenAI's CEO admits the Pentagon deal was rushed and amends it with new surveillance protections - but legal experts say the fixes don't close the real loopholes.

Cursor doubled its annualized revenue to $2 billion in just three months, making it the fastest-growing SaaS company in history. But its dependence on model providers raises hard questions about margins and survival.

Anthropic's Claude experienced elevated errors across claude.ai, Claude Code, and authentication starting at 11:49 UTC, while AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain went offline after objects struck a facility and power failures cascaded across the region.

Complete specs, benchmarks, and analysis of AWS Trainium3 - Amazon's TSMC 3nm AI chip with 2.52 PFLOPS FP8, 144GB HBM3e, and NeuronLink-v4, powering Anthropic's Claude through Project Rainier.

Claude Code alone now authors 4% of all GitHub commits. At its current growth rate, AI code output will match 200,000 developers by year-end, a million by 2027, and over a billion by 2028.

From Claude 101 to MCP Advanced to Agent Skills - Anthropic's free curriculum on Skilljar covers everything from basic prompting to production deployments on AWS Bedrock and Google Vertex AI.

Anthropic's claude.com/import-memory page walks users through a two-step process to transfer ChatGPT, Gemini, or any chatbot's stored memories into Claude - no data loss, no starting over.

A pre-release comparison of DeepSeek V4 and Claude Opus 4.6 - the open-weight challenger that could match Opus on coding at potentially 89x lower output cost.