Washington forces a shutdown of Anthropic's most powerful models and triggers a global scramble for sovereign AI; SpaceX buys Cursor for $60B days after going public; and China's DeepSeek raises $7.4B at a $50B+ valuation.
Anthropic files confidentially for what could be the largest IPO ever, OpenAI's "superapp" pivot signals chat is dead, and Google agrees to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute.
Anthropic hits a $965B valuation and ships Claude Opus 4.8 · SoftBank commits up to €75B to French AI data centers · Cognition more than doubles to a $25B pre-money on the vibe-coding wave.
