2026-08-13
Anthropic’s $2trn IPO is priced below what AI stocks already fetch
The number comes from investors, not the company. Six backers told the Financial Times that rising revenue would let the five-year-old lab more than double its valuation in an autumn listing. At $2 trillion it would eclipse SpaceX, which went public at $1.77 trillion in June. Anthropic itself has fixed nothing. Several investors said senior […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-13
DeepSeek built a Claude Code rival, then quadrupled its prices
Start with the money, because it is the part every developer noticed. From 16 August, a million output tokens through DeepSeek-V4-Pro costs $3.96 at peak, up from $0.87. V4-Flash goes from $0.28 to $1.32, Bloomberg reported. Off-peak rates are half the new peak, so $1.98 and $0.66. Now hold those discount rates against last week’s […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-13
Amazon Quick Arrives Inside Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook
AWS has brought its Amazon Quick assistant directly into Microsoft 365, announcing on August 13, 2026 that extensions for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook are now generally available to Quick customers. The launch, detailed in an AWS Machine Learning Blog post, puts the company's agentic AI inside the productivity apps where enterprise users already spend their day, rather than asking the [...]
2026-08-13
OpenAI is not just replacing its revenue chief, it is rebuilding the sales operation
OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser is leaving after eight months, replaced by Dali Rajic, formerly president and chief operating officer of Wiz. The company has also hired recruiters to rebuild its go-to-market team, two days after longtime executive Brad Lightcap said he was leaving. OpenAI’s chief revenue officer is leaving after eight months in […]<br /> This story continues [...]
2026-08-13
Europe built the world’s largest electric plane. It flew in New York
Heart Aerospace flew its X1 demonstrator at Plattsburgh International Airport on 12 August, the company announced. The aircraft taxied, took off, climbed, manoeuvred and landed. It reached 335 metres, and its all-electric propulsion produced more than one megawatt. The airframe explains the record. The X1 has a wingspan of about 32 metres, runs 23 metres […]<br /> This story continues at T [...]
