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Pentagon Awards Classified AI Contracts to Eight Companies and Leaves Anthropic Off the List
The Department of Defense cleared Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Nvidia, SpaceX, Oracle, and startup Reflection AI to deploy AI on its classified networks — excluding Anthropic after the Claude maker refused to accept broad military use terms that the other eight vendors agreed to sign. Read more
Anthropic in Talks to Close $900 Billion Valuation Round Within Two Weeks as Revenue Approaches $40 Billion
Anthropic is preparing what is likely its last private funding round before an IPO, at a valuation that would surpass OpenAI's $852 billion figure, as sources place its actual annual revenue run rate closer to $40 billion despite the company's public $30 billion claim. Read more
SoftBank Plans $100 Billion IPO for Roze, a New Robotics Company Built to Automate Data Center Construction
Masayoshi Son is bundling ABB Robotics, Ampere Computing, and infrastructure assets into a new company called Roze that will deploy autonomous robots to build AI data centers faster, targeting a public listing at $100 billion as early as the second half of 2026 — with KPMG already handling the paperwork. Read more
Novo Nordisk Partners With OpenAI to Apply AI Across Drug Discovery, Manufacturing, and Global Operations
The Danish pharmaceutical giant behind Ozempic and Wegovy announced a company-wide AI partnership with OpenAI covering drug discovery, supply chain, manufacturing, and commercial operations — with pilots already running and full deployment targeted by the end of 2026 as Novo races to recover market share from Eli Lilly. Read more
PwC Study Finds 20% of Companies Are Capturing 75% of AI's Economic Gains as the Gap Widens
A PwC survey of 1,217 senior executives across 25 sectors found that AI leaders — who redesign workflows rather than add AI tools, automate decisions with proper governance, and pursue growth opportunities over efficiency alone — are pulling sharply ahead of peers and capturing the vast majority of AI's financial returns. Read more
📢 The Signal Behind the Noise
This weekend clarified something important. The AI economy is splitting into two distinct tiers — companies that are capturing AI's returns and companies that are watching from the sidelines, vendors that agreed to government terms and the one that didn't, incumbents raising at valuations measured in the hundreds of billions and everyone still figuring out their strategy. The PwC data puts a number on what the rest of the weekend made obvious: 20% of companies are taking 75% of the gains. The window to join that 20% is not closed. But the gap is measurable now, and it is growing every quarter.
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