AI Weekly Wrap-Up

Anthropic files for IPO 6-3-2026

The Pope warns us 5-27-2026

Elon becomes AI's biggest loser

Elon cries uncle - 5-13-2026

Anthropic pulls ahead

For most of the past 3 years, the AI model race has been relatively evenly matched between OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and Anthropic’s Claude. However, OpenAI was the acknowledged category leader, the company that put AI on the map with its breakout product used by hundreds of millions of users each month.

Elon’s last hope: SpaceX IPO to bail him out

For the past 2 years, Elon Musk has been engaged in an ever-more-frantic financial juggling act, trying to keep his net worth afloat despite losing gobs of money. His most visible ploy has been to direct public attention away from the woes of Tesla, his floundering electric car company, and toward a revolving list of new shiny objects. Robots! Space ships! AI data centers! and finally, the trifecta - AI data centers in space serviced by robots!

Trends from Stanford’s State of AI 2026

Each year, Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered AI releases a report on the state of artificial intelligence based on the events of the past year. This year, Stanford HAI identified 15 overarching trends that are shaping the present and future of artificial technology globally. Here are some of the most interesting:

Sam Altman is “unconstrained by the truth”

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is having a bad week. Chief among his woes: an expose’ in the New Yorker that shows him to be devious, self-dealing, and motivated primarily by a will to power that many autocrats could only dream of. The article is penned by legendary investigative journalist Ronan Farrow, who broke the original Hollywood sexual assault scandal that sparked the “Me Too” movement. (Son of Mia and Woody Allen - or possibly Frank Sinatra, according to Mia - Farrow has been immersed in the seamy secrets of the rich and famous all his life.)