July 2026

OpenAI pitched the US government a 5% equity stake worth $42.6 billion, modeled on Alaska's oil fund, and wants Anthropic, Google, and Meta to match it.

Court emails show the Pentagon told Dario Amodei that Anthropic's guardrails on autonomous weapons were 'just not workable' — and that the blacklisting came the day after Amodei said the Pentagon's terms erased his red lines.

Anthropic's Fable 5 returned globally on July 1 after the export ban lifted, but a new jailbreak classifier cut its score on one third-party debugging benchmark by 70% almost overnight.

Together AI closed an $800M Series C at an $8.3B valuation to run open-source models like DeepSeek and Kimi cheaper than OpenAI and Anthropic can run their own.

Qualcomm reportedly discussed paying $8 billion to $10 billion for Jim Keller's RISC-V chip startup Tenstorrent. Then Keller said in Tokyo that the two companies are not in acquisition talks.