Anthropic Tops $30B ARR, Overtakes OpenAI for First Time
Anthropic’s annualized revenue just hit $30B, passing OpenAI’s $24B for the first time. What drove the 30x growth and what it means for AI buyers.
CAISI Says DeepSeek V4 Pro Lags US Frontier by 8 Months
NIST’s CAISI just benchmarked DeepSeek V4 Pro at 8 months behind US frontier models — but at 1/10 the cost. What it means for procurement and policy.
AI Coding Agents 2026: Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, Codex
A 2026 playbook for AI coding agents: Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, workflow patterns, team adoption, metrics, and a deployment plan.
Pentagon Excludes Anthropic From AI Deals With Seven Vendors
The Pentagon’s May 1, 2026 AI contracts went to OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, AWS, NVIDIA, SpaceX, and Reflection AI. Anthropic was excluded as a ‘supply chain risk.’
Voice AI Deployment 2026: ElevenLabs, OpenAI Realtime, Agents
A 2026 playbook for production voice AI: ElevenLabs, Cartesia, OpenAI Realtime, Vapi, telephony, latency engineering, voice cloning, and production operations.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 3 Adds Cowork With Anthropic
Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 3 just launched with Anthropic’s Cowork tech, multi-model routing, and Agent Builder governance. What changed and how to use it.
Education AI in 2026: K-12, Higher Ed, Khanmigo, and EdTech
A 2026 playbook for AI in K-12 and higher education: Khanmigo, ChatGPT Edu, FERPA/COPPA, equity, AI literacy, and a 24-month deployment plan.
Anthropic’s $1.5B Wall Street JV With Blackstone and Goldman
Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman just structured a $1.5B JV to deploy Claude across mid-market portfolios. Why it matters.
Cerebras Hits 969 Tokens/Sec on Llama 3.1 405B Inference
Cerebras CS-3 just measured 969 tokens/sec on Llama 3.1 405B and ~3000 t/s on gpt-oss-120B, leaving Groq at ~476. What it means and how to use it.
RAG in Production 2026: GraphRAG, Hybrid Retrieval, and Evals
A 2026 playbook for production RAG: hybrid retrieval, GraphRAG, rerankers, RAGAS evaluation, observability, security, cost, and a week-one reference stack you can ship.
Meta’s Hatch Personal Agent and Muse Spark Land in Beta
Meta is shipping Hatch, a consumer AI agent on the new Muse Spark model, with Instagram agentic shopping and a Q4 launch. What’s new and how to prepare.
Financial Services AI Playbook 2026: Banking and Insurance Agents
A 2026 playbook for AI in banking, insurance, and asset management: Anthropic agents, SR 11-7, KYC/AML, claims, vendor map, ROI, and a 24-month rollout plan.
Google Folds Project Mariner Into Gemini Agent on May 4
Google retired Project Mariner on May 4, 2026 and folded its browser automation into Gemini Agent. What changed, what to do next, and how it stacks up.
Legal AI in 2026: Harvey, Casetext, E-Discovery, and Contract Review
A practical 2026 playbook for legal AI: Harvey, Casetext, e-discovery, contract review, governance, vendor selection, ROI, and a 24-month firm rollout plan.
Grok 4.3 Cuts API Prices 40% and Adds Native Video Inputs
xAI’s Grok 4.3 cuts input pricing 40%, adds 1M context, native video, document artifacts, Speech APIs, and #1 specialized benchmarks. Comparison + migration guide.
ChatGPT Workspace Agents: OpenAI’s Shared Team Automation
ChatGPT workspace agents shift to credit-based pricing today. Architecture, comparisons vs Anthropic Orbit and Microsoft Copilot, plus deployment playbook.
Healthcare AI Deployment Playbook: Scribes, FDA, and Workflows
A 13,000-word playbook for healthcare AI in 2026: ambient scribes, FDA pathways, EHR integration, vendor selection, ROI modeling, change management, governance.
Apple Opens Siri to Claude, Gemini, and Grok in iOS 27
Apple’s iOS 27 ships Siri Extensions — route queries to Claude, Gemini, Grok, and others. End of OpenAI exclusivity + Gemini-based foundation models inside.
LangGraph in Production: Building Stateful AI Agents in 2026
A 13,000-word production playbook for LangGraph: architecture, state design, durable execution, multi-agent patterns, observability, deployment, governance.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Hits 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2 — A Reasoning Leap
Gemini 3.1 Pro hit 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2 — Google’s biggest reasoning jump yet. Pricing, comparison vs GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7, and how to evaluate it today.