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Markets are closed, models are still shipping. Here’s what hit the wires while you were eating dinner.
🏦 Anthropic links arms with Wall Street
Anthropic is launching a $1.5B joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman to push Claude deeper into financial services. Each of the three is reportedly chipping in $300M. Translation: Claude is about to be embedded in a lot of trading desks and back-office workflows. TechCrunch has the details.
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🪖 Pentagon picks 8 — Anthropic isn’t one of them
The DoD finalized AI deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, SpaceX, and three others. Anthropic, famously cautious about military use, was left off the list — though the White House has reopened talks. The Wall Street JV above suddenly looks like a very well-timed hedge.
☁️ AWS goes all-in with OpenAI
Amazon’s weekly drop confirmed Bedrock Managed Agents powered by OpenAI in limited preview — frontier OpenAI models running on AWS infra, agent-ready out of the box. The cloud wars just got a lot more interesting now that AWS isn’t an Anthropic-only shop.
📊 The state of AI, May edition
Air Street’s monthly report dropped and the takeaway is brutal: four Chinese labs (including DeepSeek V4) hit roughly Claude Opus 4.7-level agentic coding at under a third of the cost. The frontier is no longer a Western-only club. Open weights are eating margin.
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🔥 Hot take from Reddit
r/artificial is having a field day with the China-vs-West cost gap. Top comment, paraphrased: “We’re not racing to AGI anymore, we’re racing to who can serve a billion tokens for under a buck.” Hard to argue. The vibe shift from capability theater to unit-economics is real, and it’s happening this quarter.
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That’s the wrap. See you at the morning bell. ☕