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ANTHROPIC BOASTS REVENUE RUN RATE OF $30 BILLION AS THE CLAUDE DEVELOPER EXPANDS ITS PARTNERSHIP WITH GOOGLE AND BROADCOM

Anthropic's annual revenue run-rate has spiked from roughly $9 billion at the end of 2025 to more than $30 billion. Fewer than 135 S&P companies booked at least $30 billion in sales in the past 12 months. OpenAI's annual revenue run-rate is around $24 billion. Anthropic recently announced an expansion of its partnership with Google and Broadcom. Anthropic will access 3.5 gigawatts of TPU-based AI compute capacity beginning in 2027.

HIGGSFIELD BRINGS ART-DIRECTED QUALITY TO AI IMAGE GENERATION

Higgsfield's Soul 2 model brings art-directed AI image generation to professional creators, eliminating the synthetic look of typical AI outputs, powered by a team with luxury fashion and brand communications backgrounds. Built on human feedback from art directors and photographers, the model leverages fashion history and cultural context to accurately represent diverse aesthetics, skin tones, and hair textures. Soul ID extends this further, letting users train the model on as few as 20 photos for campaign-ready personalization, while integrated tools like OpenAI's Sora and Google's Veo keep it a one-stop production workflow.

OPENAI'S LEADERSHIP REPORTEDLY DISAGREES ABOUT WHEN TO RAISE MONEY AND HOW TO SPEND IT

OpenAI's CFO, Sarah Friar, reportedly told colleagues earlier in the year that she didn't believe the company could be ready to go public in 2026. CEO Sam Altman wants to go public as soon as Q4. Friar has previously expressed doubts about whether OpenAI needed to pour so much money into obtaining AI servers, and whether the company's revenue growth would support the commitments. These frictions have led Altman to exclude Friar from some conversations related to the company's financial plans.

ARTEMIS II ASTRONAUTS HEADING HOME AFTER HISTORIC MOON FLYBY

The Artemis II mission is the first to send humans to the Moon in more than 50 years. The crew surpassed the Apollo 13 distance record of 248,655 statute miles from Earth, reaching a peak distance of 252,756 miles from Earth. It came within 4,067 miles of the lunar surface, looping around the far side of the moon before returning. The crew is set to splash down in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego, California, on Friday at 8:07 PM.

FROM FOLDING BOXES TO FIXING VACUUMS, GEN-1 ROBOTICS MODEL HITS 99% RELIABILITY

Robotic machine learning company Generalist's GEN-1 physical AI system reportedly crosses into production-level success rates on a broad range of physical skills. The model is also able to respond to disruptions by improvising new moves. The company collected over half a million hours and petabytes of physical interaction data to help train the model. A video of a robot powered by the model taking money out of a wallet and replacing it is available in the article.

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