
Fidji Simo Steps Down - OpenAI Bets on Brockman
OpenAI's No. 2 executive Fidji Simo exits over chronic illness as Greg Brockman absorbs her role - the latest in two years of steady leadership turnover as Anthropic closes in.
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OpenAI's No. 2 executive Fidji Simo exits over chronic illness as Greg Brockman absorbs her role - the latest in two years of steady leadership turnover as Anthropic closes in.

Claude Fable 5 tops EQ-Bench Longform at Elo 2189 while GPT-5.5 leads the Mazur Writing Benchmark, reshaping the creative writing model rankings in July 2026.

Anthropic signed a 20-year, $19 billion data center lease with TeraWulf at a former aluminum smelter in Kentucky, its largest dedicated infrastructure commitment yet.

Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of running 25,000 fraudulent accounts that extracted 28.8 million Claude interactions in the largest AI distillation attack on record.

Anthropic's Claude models are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure, running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra NVL72 racks - with vendor numbers claiming 40% faster token generation than H100.

Alibaba classified Claude Code as high-risk software after a researcher alleged version 2.1.91 silently identified Chinese corporate users, escalating a bitter distillation war between the two companies.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 57,000 nonfarm payrolls added in June 2026, about half the consensus forecast, as tech and finance shed roles at 25,000-28,000 per month.

Crunchbase data shows global startup investment hit $510 billion in H1 2026 - more than all of 2025 combined - with AI absorbing over 70% of Q2 capital and two labs capturing 43% of the total.

Anthropic is in early talks with Samsung to develop its first custom AI chip on a 2nm process, making it the last major frontier lab to enter the custom silicon race.

Anthropic's Claude Science workbench completes a three-way AI battle with Google DeepMind and OpenAI over drug discovery, backed by Nobel laureate John Jumper and 60+ scientific database integrations.

A benchmark-driven comparison of Claude Fable 5 and Gemini 3.5 Flash across coding, agents, pricing, and speed - two models built for opposite priorities.

MGX closes its first AI fund at $49B, beating a $45B target, after co-leading the biggest funding rounds for OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI over the past six months.