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Friday, May 29, 2026
Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation
Anthropic raised $65B in Series H funding at a $965B valuation and shipped Claude Opus 4.8 with improved agentic reasoning. OpenAI released a governance framework aligning its safety practices with EU and California regulations.

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Anthropic
Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 delivers significant improvements in agentic reasoning, coding reliability, and task judgment over its predecessor at the same price, while introducing dynamic workflows for large-scale tasks and user-controllable effort settings. The company also announced plans to release a more capable "Mythos-class" model in coming weeks pending safety safeguards.
Anthropic
Anthropic raised $65B at a $965B valuation with $47B run-rate revenue, underscoring massive enterprise demand for AI and intensifying competition among foundation model providers.
Bloomberg
Apple is rebuilding Siri on Google Gemini with a new ChatGPT-style app and third-party AI agent support, marking a major competitive push against OpenAI in consumer AI assistants.
OpenAI
OpenAI launched a personal finance feature for ChatGPT Pro users in the U.S. that connects to bank accounts via Plaid, enabling AI-powered financial analysis and planning using GPT-5.5's reasoning capabilities. The company is partnering with Intuit to enable financial actions directly in ChatGPT while offering privacy controls for connected financial data.
OpenAI
OpenAI published its Frontier Governance Framework showing how its safety practices align with new AI regulations in California and the EU, covering risk areas from cyber threats to loss of control. The framework translates OpenAI's internal Preparedness Framework into a public governance document meeting specific regulatory obligations.
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