New Claude, New Realities

New Claude, New Realities

Author: Morning Brew May 29, 2026 Duration: 24:10
Anthropic dropped Opus 4.8 with dynamic workflows for Claude Code and raised $65B at a $965B valuation, overtaking OpenAI. Blue Origin's New Glenn exploded during testing, Amazon killed its AI usage leaderboard, and an AI startup offers free home cleaning for training data. Anthropic launches Opus 4.8, saying it's "more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims", at the same price as 4.7 (TechCrunch) Anthropic raised a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation, overtaking OpenAI's $852B valuation, and says its revenue run rate crossed $47B this month (NYT) Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, which exploded during testing on Thursday, was set to ferry 48 Amazon Leo satellites on Monday; Amazon paid Blue Origin $2.7B (FT) Sources: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees' use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with needless tasks (FT) AI startup Shift launches a free home cleaning service in NYC to record first-person video with a camera-equipped cap and use it to train robots (The Verge) Longreads Simon Willison on how coding agents gave Anthropic and OpenAI real product-market fit, burning $1,000+/month in tokens per power user and changing enterprise pricing (Simon Willison) Kirkland & Ellis, the world's highest-grossing law firm, is setting aside $500M to build its own AI platform rather than rely on tools available to its rivals (FT) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The Friday Of All The Headlines [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:42
I’ve got everything for you today. OpenAI closed its round. Anthropic draws a line with the Pentagon and Sam Altman supports it. A huge AI inspired layoff round, maybe. Netflix walks away from the deal, and, of course, T…
An AI Has A Substack [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:19
Nano Banana 2 is here already. Nvidia tries to assure everybody there IS no bubble. Marc Benioff tries to assure everybody there IS not SaaS-pocalypse. Did Google just do exactly what Apple has been unable to do? And how…
Galaxy Unpacked [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 22:36
The new Galaxy S26 lineup is here. Remote control for Claude is here. But is Anthropic about to wash its hands when it comes to working with the Pentagon? Could Stripe buy PayPal. Oh, and speaking of AI and war, you migh…
The AI Essays Are Moving Markets [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:22
That AI essay I shared with you yesterday sure got Wall Street’s attention. Anthropic says Chinese models are training off of Claude. A significant new breakthrough in chip production technology. And as fun as that tri-f…
Sam Says Some Things [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 23:37
Sam Altman has a lot of stuff to say about AI and let’s just say comms needs to have a quiet word with him. SaaS may or may not be dead, but is the replacement vertical AI? And a big thought experiment. If the AI bulls a…
When AI Breaks Things [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:57
When your AI bot breaks your operations, even when you’re AWS. More on OpenAI’s hardware plans. Hey, remember Perplexity? What’s up with them? Is Uber roadkill in the self-driving car horserace? And, of course, the Weeke…
A Canticle For Leibowitz [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:23
Gemini is getting with the increased cadence of AI releases. Honestly, can we even keep up at this point? A dispatch from the social media trial as Zuck takes the stand. At long last, Amazon dethrones Walmart. Apple seem…
New Pixel [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:34
New pixel phone. A bunch of new AI models including Gemini’s entry into the music AI space. Everybody is trying to make AI fetch happen in India. And Matthew Ball’s state of the gaming industry report doesn’t paint as gl…
AI Gettin' SaaS-y [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:48
The big regulatory guns are out for Grok. Memory chip shortage now hit the Steam Deck. Manus is already coming to your favorite messaging app. Turns out Buy Now Pay Later really works for vacations. And another lengthy A…
OpenAI Grabs OpenClaw’s Creator [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:13
OpenClaw’s creator is joining OpenAI, but the OpenClaw project lives on. The AI-caused memory shortage might delay the next Playstation. Is the Pentagon about to cut ties with Anthropic? And Vitalik Buterin is growing co…