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- Week in review #28
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6, xAI releases Grok 4.5 models
OpenAI's public release of its GPT-5.6 model family marks a significant acceleration in the AI arms race, with new agentic and voice capabilities set to drive adoption. Meanwhile, the staggering scale of infrastructure investment faces growing challenges, as a new report reveals nearly 90% of firms deploying AI agents have suffered security breaches. - Week in review #27
South Korea announces $974B AI and chip industrial plan
This week, the AI industry balanced major model releases with increasing government influence, highlighted by OpenAI's restricted GPT-5.6 launch. Meanwhile, unprecedented investment continues to reshape the hardware landscape, from South Korea's massive semiconductor plan to custom chip designs. - Week in review #24
SpaceX IPO raises $75B, valued at $1.77T
SpaceX shattered every IPO record this week, but the real story was capital flooding into AI from every direction — Bezos betting $12 billion on physical-world intelligence, Apple finally reinventing Siri, and Washington trying to write the rules before the money moves too fast. The line between tech company and infrastructure play has all but disappeared.
- Week in review #21
SpaceX files for Nasdaq IPO at $2T valuation by mid-June
Google I/O launched an always-on personal agent, an OpenAI model solved an 80-year-old math problem, and SpaceX filed the largest IPO in history — all in the same week. Trump pulled a planned AI executive order at the last minute, calling it "a blocker."
- Week in review #19
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.
- Week in review #18
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.
- Week in review #17
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.
- Week in review #16
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.
- Week in review #15
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.