friday, may 29, 2026
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026, six weeks after Opus 4.7, describing it as "a modest but tangible improvement." The model shows enhanced performance on complex reasoning tasks and is now available for GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, with new agentic workflow capabilities.
Anthropic raised $965 billion in Series H funding, reaching a $965 billion valuation and surpassing OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup. The company's annualized run-rate revenue grew from $30 billion to $47 billion, alongside the release of Opus 4.8 and Dynamic Workflows features.
- Series H funding round valued Anthropic at $965 billion
- Run-rate revenue increased to $47 billion, up from $30 billion
- Opus 4.8 model released with Dynamic Workflows and ultracode features
- Anthropic now more valuable than OpenAI, leapfrogging competitor
- Axios founder Jim VandeHei noted no company in any industry has scaled organic revenue this quickly at this level
Shift, an AI startup, offers free home cleaning services to generate training data for household robots, but the company faces a lawsuit from an Airbnb host who claims a robot caused $12,000 in damages during testing. The startup records human cleaners performing tasks to train future robotic systems, positioning the data value as payment for the service.
- Shift announced free cleaning service funded by video training data from human cleaners
- Airbnb host filed lawsuit alleging $12,000 in property damage from robot testing
- Company records cleaners in white uniforms performing vacuuming, dusting, and washing tasks
- Startup operates in San Francisco and New York City markets
- Training data value positioned as sufficient to cover cleaning service costs
Pope Leo XIV released Magnifica Humanitas, an encyclical addressing artificial intelligence's impact on humanity, calling for regulation, transparency, and preventing power concentration among a few global players. The document, presented with Anthropic in attendance, argues that technology is never neutral and urges individuals and policymakers to act with courage and solidarity in the AI age.