Anthropic Watch2026. 06. 01. 08:13:58Anthropic Watch: Week of May 25–31, 2026Five events beyond the Series H: a papal AI encyclical with Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah on stage at the Vatican, a Korea leadership appointment ahead of Seoul office opening, a Milan launch with six named Italian enterprise clients, a $500 million Claude bill from one unidentified enterprise client in 30 days, and early talks with Microsoft for Maia 200 chip access. Includes roundup context on the $65B Series H and Opus 4.8.
Anthropic Watch2026. 05. 31. 10:33:06Anthropic Watch: Week of May 19–29, 2026Five stories in ten days: Anthropic's $65B Series H at a $965B valuation, Claude Opus 4.8 with honest-AI improvements and Dynamic Workflows, the $300M Stainless SDK acquisition that stripped a key shared tool from OpenAI and Google, Andrej Karpathy joining as pre-training lead, and Mythos-level cybersecurity models inching toward general release.