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Anthropic Tops $1.2 Trillion on Private Markets, Passing OpenAI in Race to IPO
Anthropic’s private secondary-market valuation reached $1.2 trillion, edging past OpenAI as both companies prepare for public listings.
// daily-digest · mon 13 jul 2026 · morning refresh · last 72h focus
Ten items on Anthropic’s surging IPO-track valuation, the Fable 5 access whiplash, AI export-control friction, and coding-agent usage data, plus a wildcard black hole thermodynamics finding.
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Anthropic’s private secondary-market valuation reached $1.2 trillion, edging past OpenAI as both companies prepare for public listings.
Weekly roundup of AI model releases from Meta, OpenAI, and xAI, including GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, and GPT-Live voice models.
Anthropic extended free Claude Fable 5 access for paid subscribers to July 19 after repeated short-notice cutoff dates.
Weekly AI industry roundup covering Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI, an Anthropic model deprecation deadline, and shifting export controls.
Analysis of Beijing considering export controls on its own advanced AI models, echoing US restrictions on Anthropic.
Cursor’s two-year usage data shows the median developer writes about 700 AI-assisted code lines per week.
Argues AI agents should never serve as the Directly Responsible Individual, citing IBM’s 1979 rule on computer accountability.
Moonshot AI’s open-weight Kimi K2.7 Code model is now available to GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise subscribers.
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced a $100 million, three-year plan to fund job training and support 10,000 jobs.
Penn State physicists proposed a new entropy measure extending Hawking’s black hole thermodynamics to dynamic, merging black holes.