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AI Weekly: Anthropic Hits $965B, Opus 4.8 Rewrites Agent Benchmarks

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This Week's Highlights
  • Anthropic raised $65B at a $965B valuation — nearly a trillion-dollar company — while ARR crossed $47B, up from $12B just three months ago.
  • Claude Opus 4.8 launched with Dynamic Workflows enabling hundreds of parallel subagents, becoming the only model to complete every case on the Super-Agent benchmark.
  • DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis declared humanity stands in the 'foothills of the singularity' with AGI potentially 4 years away, as industry leaders publicly challenged the AI layoff narrative.
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