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Anthropic forms $1.5B finance JV, faces Pentagon ban
Anthropic stormed Wall Street with a $1.5 billion joint venture and ten ready-made financial agents, while the Pentagon signed AI deals with eight tech giants and pointedly left Anthropic off the list. The week crystallised a strange new reality: one company can simultaneously be the most wanted partner on Wall Street and the most unwanted in Washington.
OpenAI, Microsoft overhaul AI deal, end exclusivity
OpenAI broke free from Microsoft's cloud and dropped GPT-5.5 in the same week, while Google and Amazon raced to write the biggest cheques Anthropic has ever seen. The walls between the AI giants are coming down — what's left is a fight over distribution.
Amazon commits $25B to Anthropic, total now $33B
Google bet the enterprise on agents while DeepSeek dropped a new open-source flagship on the same morning. Meanwhile, the capital flowing into frontier AI reached numbers that make last year's mega-rounds look modest.
Anthropic, OpenAI split on cybersecurity AI model distribution
AI cybersecurity became a philosophical arms race between OpenAI and Anthropic. Artemis II brought astronauts home from the moon.
Meta, Microsoft, Amazon drive $242B AI infrastructure deals
242 billion dollars flowed into AI in a single quarter, and the week showed exactly where it's all going.