Grant Harvey

OpenAI's $852B valuation faces backer scrutiny while VCs offer Anthropic up to $800B, Allbirds pivoted from sneakers to AI compute and the stock popped 600%, Apple sent Siri devs back to coding bootcamp, Tubi became the first streamer with a native ChatGPT app, Europe got iced out of Anthropic's Mythos preview, and a federal court ruled your AI chats have no attorney-client privilege.

Allbirds, the sustainable shoe company, is pivoting to a GPU provider. I'm sorry, WHAT?

This is a response to our article on AI's "male problem." If you're reading this, it's probably because you have a response of your own.

83.6% of all venture capital goes to all-male founding teams. Only 14% of AI research papers have a female first author. 96% of deepfake videos target women. The AI industry's gender problem isn't just about who's in the room; it's about what gets built when half the population has almost no say in the technology reshaping daily life.

Sam Altman's San Francisco home was attacked twice in three days as the FBI moves toward a domestic terrorism designation, Maine became the first state to ban large data centers, Anthropic shipped Claude Code Routines, a leaked OpenAI memo accused Anthropic of inflating its $30B run rate, and Nvidia Blackwell GPU rental prices jumped 48% in two months.

Anthropic's new paper shows nine parallel Claude agents recovered 97% of the alignment-research performance gap on a problem its human researchers got 23% of in seven days. Total cost: $18K. The number to internalize is $22 per agent-hour.

Stanford's 2026 AI Index quantified the gap between AI insiders and the public, Anthropic's Mythos triggered a Fed-led bank summit, Berkeley researchers broke every major agent benchmark, Microsoft started building its own OpenClaw, and an AI signed a 3-year retail lease in San Francisco.