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The First AI Designed Drugs Are in the Clinic: 200 Candidates, Zero Approvals, and the Race to the First FDA Win - June 4, 2026 More than 200 AI discovered drug candidates are now in human trials, yet not one has been approved. We dig into Insilico Medicine's Rentosertib, Relay Therapeutics' Zovegalisib, Eli Lilly's 2.75 billion dollar Insilico deal, and the LillyPod supercomputer t...

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, June 4, 2026 Today's briefing: China's DeepSeek nears a 7.4 billion dollar first funding round that could value it at 59 billion

Microsoft Builds Its Own Brain: MAI Thinking One and the In-House Models Loosening OpenAI's Grip - June 3, 2026 At Build 2026, Microsoft unveiled seven in-house MAI models led by MAI Thinking One, its first homegrown reasoning model trained from scratch with no OpenAI data. Chris and Laura unpack the benchmarks, the Mixture of Experts architecture, and what owning its own frontier model means...

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, June 3, 2026 President Trump signs an executive order asking AI labs to give the government voluntary early access to their most powerful models and to build an AI cybersecurity clearinghouse. Microsoft unveils in-house MAI models at Build to lean less on OpenAI, while Computex turns into an all-out chip battle: Nvidia debuts the RTX Spark Windows PC superchip...

Robotaxis Reach Europe: Inside the Uber, Autobrains, and NVIDIA Agentic AI Program Coming to Munich - June 2, 2026 Uber, Israeli startup Autobrains, and NVIDIA have unveiled an agentic AI robotaxi program built on NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion, set to launch in Munich pending regulatory approval. We dig into Autobrains' camera-first "Liquid AI" approach, the OEM-agnostic strategy, and what...

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, June 2, 2026 Anthropic confidentially files for a U.S. IPO as the AI funding race reaches Wall Street, while Microsoft opens Build 2026 with a family of homegrown models and SoftBank overtakes Toyota as Japan's most valuable company. We cover GitHub Copilot's contentious switch to token-based billing, China's sweeping new outbound technology rules...

Jensen's Two Chip Day: NVIDIA Unveils RTX Spark for AI Agent Laptops and the Vera CPU Now Shipping to Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceXAI - June 1, 2026 At GTC Taipei 2026, Jensen Huang took the wraps off two new processors that target both ends of the agentic AI stack on the same morning: RTX Spark, a Grace Blackwell superchip for slim Windows laptops with 128GB unified memory and the ability to...

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, June 1, 2026 Nvidia opens Computex Taipei with the Vera Rubin architecture entering full production, while SoftBank commits seventy-five billion euros to five gigawatts of A.I. data centers in France and the U.S. Commerce Department tightens chip export controls targeting Nvidia and AMD. Microsoft and Nvidia ready the first Arm-based Windows PCs ahead of Build 202...

Robot Refs Take the Court: How Adam Silver and Sony Hawkeye Are Automating the NBA's Out of Bounds and Goaltending Calls NBA Commissioner Adam Silver just announced that the league will hand objective officiating calls to an automated AI system built on Sony's Hawkeye 3D optical tracking platform. We unpack how a missed out of bounds call in Spurs vs Thunder Game Five accelerated the rol...

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, May 31, 2026 Today's brief covers Anthropic's historic sixty five billion dollar Series H round at a nine hundred and sixty five billion dollar valuation, OpenAI's new Frontier Governance Framework aligning with California and EU AI rules, Google's twenty four seven Gemini Spark agent going live for US Ultra subscribers, Cognition's one bi...

The 45 Billion Dollar Tenant: Inside Anthropic's Colossus Compute Pact With SpaceX Revealed by the IPO Filing - May 30, 2026 SpaceX's freshly filed S-1 prospectus reveals that Anthropic is paying Elon Musk's firm 1.25 billion dollars every month for exclusive access to the Colossus 1 supercomputer, totaling roughly 45 billion through May 2029. We unpack why the maker of Claude is no...

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Saturday, May 30, 2026 Anthropic closes a sixty-five billion dollar Series H at a nine hundred sixty-five billion dollar valuation, leapfrogging OpenAI as the worlds most valuable AI startup. OpenAI launches Rosalind Biodefense and a Frontier Governance Framework to align with EU and California rules. Microsoft confirms no Windows 12 at Build 2026 and previews new in hous...

OpenAI Launches DeployCo: The $4 Billion Consulting Empire, the Tomoro Acquisition, and the Palantir Playbook Reshaping Enterprise AI - May 29, 2026 Yesterday OpenAI launched the OpenAI Deployment Company, a majority owned consulting subsidiary backed by more than four billion dollars from TPG, Advent, Bain Capital, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, SoftBank, and fifteen other investors. The same day, Op...

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Friday, May 29, 2026 Anthropic closes a sixty-five billion dollar Series H at a nine hundred sixty-five billion dollar valuation, surpassing OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup. Snowflake commits six billion dollars to AWS for AI workloads with expanded Graviton chip access. Ai2 ships full code and data for MolmoAct 2 open robotics foundation model. Saris raises twenty...

The Passport Lockdown: How Beijing Just Extended Travel Curbs to Top AI Talent at DeepSeek, Alibaba, and Manus - May 28, 2026 Bloomberg reported this week that Chinese government agencies are now imposing overseas travel restrictions on top AI talent at private firms, including DeepSeek, Alibaba, and the agent startup Manus. Chris and Laura unpack why this is a fundamental policy shift, how the bl...

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Thursday, May 28, 2026 Today's briefing covers twelve fresh AI stories: Cognition AI raises more than one billion dollars at a twenty-six billion dollar valuation

Project Glasswing and Claude Mythos: How Anthropic's Cybersecurity Consortium Is Hunting Ten Thousand Zero Days with Frontier AI Anthropic has assembled a cybersecurity consortium with AWS, Apple, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorgan Chase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks. The unreleased Claude Mythos Preview model autonomously discovered more than ten thousand...

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Wednesday, May 27, 2026 Today, Fireworks AI is in talks for funding at a $15 billion valuation

Apple Picks Google Gemini for Siri: Inside the One Point Two Trillion Parameter Deal That Just Reshaped Big Tech Apple has confirmed a multi year partnership making Google's custom 1.2 trillion parameter Gemini model the default reasoning brain inside Siri across roughly two billion devices. Chris and Laura unpack the one billion dollar a year price tag, the three tier privacy architecture (o...

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Tuesday, May 26, 2026 Today on the brief: Pope Leo XIV releases his first encyclical Magnifica Humanitas calling for robust AI regulation. Anthropic ships 28 enterprise security and compliance integrations for Claude. Autonomous startup Polsia raises 30 million dollars with no employees. A Tesla engineer confirms xAI Grok is now embedded in Full Self-Driving and Cybercab...

Magnifica Humanitas: Pope Leo the Fourteenth's First Encyclical Takes On AI, and Anthropic's Cofounder Helps Launch It Pope Leo the Fourteenth publishes his first encyclical today on the protection of human dignity in the age of artificial intelligence, deliberately signed on the one hundred and thirty-fifth anniversary of Rerum Novarum. The launch event at the Vatican's Synod Hall...

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, May 25, 2026 On today's brief: Pope Leo XIV releases Magnifica Humanitas, the first ever papal encyclical on artificial intelligence

Anthropic's $30 Billion Mega Round at $900 Billion: The Funding Deal Set to Crown the World's Most Valuable AI Startup - May 24, 2026 Anthropic is days away from closing a $30 billion funding round at a $900 billion pre money valuation, with Sequoia, Dragoneer, Altimeter, and Greenoaks each writing roughly $2 billion checks. If the round closes as reported, Anthropic will leapfrog OpenAI...

DX Today AI Daily Brief - Sunday, May 24, 2026 Today's briefing covers Anthropic closing in on a nine hundred billion dollar valuation in a thirty billion dollar funding round, OpenAI's confidential IPO filing targeting a September listing, and the White House abruptly pulling its A.I. safety executive order after Silicon Valley CEOs lobbied directly. We also unpack ElevenLabs licensing...

The FDA for AI That Almost Was: Inside the Eleventh Hour Collapse of Trump's Frontier Model Review Order - May 23, 2026 Hours before the planned signing ceremony on May 21, the White House postponed an executive order that would have established a voluntary 90-day pre-launch review of frontier AI models, with the NSA running classified evaluations and the Treasury Department coordinating with...