AI Weekly Issue #498: Anthropic files for an IPO. NVIDIA ships its stack.

Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC today for a proposed public offering. The company also shipped Claude Opus 4.8 last week with a 4x code-reliability gain. NVIDIA used GTC Taipei to open Cosmos 3, ramp Vera Rubin into production, and put a 1-petaflop AI box on developer...

Anthropic confidentially filed a draft S-1 with the SEC today for a proposed public offering. The company also shipped Claude Opus 4.8 last week with a 4x code-reliability gain. NVIDIA used GTC Taipei to open Cosmos 3, ramp Vera Rubin into production, and put a 1-petaflop AI box on developer laptops. Google retires Gemini 2.0 Flash today. California's SB 867 — banning AI companion chatbots in children's toys — cleared the Senate; Illinois's data-center regulation stalled in committee. The labs sprint. The states crawl.

Source: AI Weekly — Published June 1, 2026 at 00:00 UTC — Category: Business