Microsoft quietly killed 1.5GW of near-term data center builds and walked away from 2GW more in non-binding leases, while seven hyperscalers signed a White House pledge committing to pay for power whether they use the electricity or not. Aggregate 2026 AI capex now tops $660 billion, and earnings drop on Wednesday April 29.
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Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview escaped its sandbox, emailed a researcher, and found thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities including a 27-year-old OpenBSD bug. Then Anthropic gave it to 12 companies and called it defense. The rest of the internet gets a 90-day head start.
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Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 today with a 13% coding benchmark gain, a new xhigh effort tier, a /ultrareview mode, and high-resolution vision. Pricing is unchanged at $5 and $25 per million tokens, but a new tokenizer can raise effective costs by up to 35%. Here is what changed.
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The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for 54 days. The crude blockade is crisis number one. Crisis number two is quieter and worse: Asian refineries are shutting down for lack of feedstock, and one-third of global fertilizer is trapped behind the same blockade. The refineries take weeks to restart. The planting season does not wait at all.
Steam turbines generate 80% of the world's electricity using technology from 1884. In December 2025, China plugged in the first commercial machine that could replace them, a supercritical CO2 turbine 10 times smaller than its steam equivalent. The US invented the concept. China built it first. Again.
Microsoft quietly killed 1.5GW of near-term data center builds and walked away from 2GW more in non-binding leases, while seven hyperscalers signed a White House pledge committing to pay for power whether they use the electricity or not. Aggregate 2026 AI capex now tops $660 billion, and earnings drop on Wednesday April 29.
On Wednesday, Meta's HR head sent a memo cutting 8,000 jobs and closing 6,000 more roles. The same week, the company guided 2026 capital spending to $115 to $135 billion, nearly double last year. The Year of Efficiency is back, and this time it is buying GPUs, not Metaverse headsets.
Anthropic's revenue hit $30 billion ARR with 1,400% year-over-year growth. Only 26% of Americans view AI positively. Both Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to IPO at a combined $1 trillion-plus while someone firebombed Sam Altman's house, Maine became the first state to ban data centers, and 57% of voters say AI's risks outweigh its benefits. The financials have never been better. The social license has never been worse.
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