Three weeks after launch, Anthropic’s Mythos has the White House opposing its expansion, the Pentagon trying to ban its maker, the NSA quietly using it.

OpenAI president Greg Brockman said AI is now writing roughly 80% of the company’s code at Sequoia’s AI Ascent 2026.

Thomas Reardon is raising $500M at a $2.5B valuation for Flourish, which uses neuroscience to make AI radically less power-hungry. Lux Capital and GV lead the round.

Octopus Energy puts $500M into Living Carbon to plant trees on degraded US land. Google, Meta, and McKinsey buy 131,240 tonnes of carbon credits. The irony runs deep.

B revenue, iPhone 17 most popular launch in history, China +28%. Tim Cook hands over to John Ternus on 1 September.

Over 241 news sites are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to prevent AI companies from using archived content for training.

Italy’s AGCM has closed consumer protection probes into DeepSeek, Mistral, and Nova AI after all three agreed to add contextual hallucination warnings.

Alphabet’s Google Cloud grew 63% and AWS 28% in Q1 2026, while Meta raised its capex guide to $145bn, sending shares down 6%.

Anthropic is weighing a $50 billion funding round at over $900 billion valuation that could make it more valuable than OpenAI.

Nvidia B300 servers now sell for $1 million in China, nearly double US prices, after the Supermicro smuggling arrest closed the grey market.

Elon Musk called himself ‘a fool’ on the stand and clashed with OpenAI’s lawyer in a tense cross-examination on day three of Musk v. Altman.

The White House has told Anthropic it opposes expanding Mythos access to 70 more organisations, citing security and compute concerns.