Friday • 29 May 2026
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29 May 2026
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade that improves coding, reasoning, and agentic capabilities while emphasizing ‘honesty’ — the model is reportedly more willing to flag uncertainty rather than confidently fabricate answers. As enterprises increasingly deploy AI agents in high-stakes workflows, reliability improvements like this could be just as important as raw capability gains.
28 May 2026
CNN sues Perplexity over ‘verbatim’ copycat articles
CNN is suing Perplexity, alleging that its AI answer engine reproduces ‘verbatim’ copies of articles and bypasses paywalls by ignoring crawler blocks. The case adds to a growing legal pile-up against AI search companies and could set important precedents on whether AI-generated summaries cross the line into infringement.
29 May 2026
How the Pope’s Magnifica Humanitas offers a template for individuals to meet the AI moment
Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical Magnifica Humanitas declares that ‘technology is never neutral’ and calls on technologists, policymakers, and citizens to confront AI’s societal impact with courage and solidarity. Combined with the Vatican’s growing engagement with labs like Anthropic, it signals that religious and ethical institutions are becoming serious players in the AI governance debate.
29 May 2026
After Nvidia’s $20B not-aqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M
AI chip startup Groq is reportedly raising $650 million as it pivots from hardware sales toward AI inference services, following Nvidia’s massive $20B ‘not-acqui-hire’ deal. The move highlights how the battle over inference — the costly process of actually running AI models in production — is becoming the next major front in the AI infrastructure wars.
28 May 2026
The internet is being rebuilt for machines
AWS, Cloudflare, and other infrastructure giants are quietly rebuilding the internet’s plumbing to handle a future where AI agents — not humans — generate most web traffic. The shift implies new protocols, authentication systems, and pricing models, and it could fundamentally change how websites, APIs, and commerce platforms are designed in the coming years.
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