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🔴 Breaking · Funding

Anthropic and Blackstone Bet AI's Next Trillion Is Implementation

Ode, a $1.5B AI-implementation venture, launches with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman — a wager that services, not models, capture the value.

Suman Guha · 6d ago

Policy

AI Safety Index: Anthropic Tops at C+, Most Labs Fail

The Future of Life Institute's 2026 index grades labs on risk, transparency, and governance — Anthropic leads with a C+, while xAI, DeepSeek, and Mistral effectively fail.

recodeai Staff · 6d ago

Chips & Infra

TSMC Posts Record Revenue as Anthropic Eyes Samsung for Custom Chips

TSMC's June revenue rose 68% YoY with N3 sold out through year-end, while Anthropic opens talks with Samsung for custom Claude inference chips to attack a $1.25B monthly compute bill.

Suman Guha · 6d ago

AI Models

Anthropic Adds Karpathy and Monzo's Tom Blomfield

Andrej Karpathy, the former Tesla AI director and OpenAI founding member, and Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield reportedly join Anthropic, with Blomfield on the compute team.

recodeai Staff · 6d ago

Agents

OpenAI Folds Codex and a Browser Into ChatGPT Work

ChatGPT Work is an agent built to run multi-hour jobs with native Google Drive, Slack, and Salesforce connections, launched alongside a full-duplex GPT-Live voice mode.

recodeai Staff · 7d ago

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LAST UPDATED: JUL 21, 2026 — 05:24 IST

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🔴 Breaking

Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record n

HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions.

🔴 Breaking

Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research

Google DeepMind and A24 announce first-of-its-kind research partnership

🔴 Breaking

YouTube clarifies policies around AI slop and upsetting vide

YouTube has updated its monetization policies to more clearly define the kinds of AI-generated and low-quality videos that can’t earn ad revenue.

🟡 Notable

New York governor says she’s using AI to analyze ̵

New York Governor Kathy Hochul might have just signed a moratorium on new AI data centers in the state, but she's not against using the technology herself. During an interview with Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast, Hochul said that her team is using "AI

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