https://ai.10xcrazy.horse/Recent content on The Day in AIHugoen-usWed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai.10xcrazy.horse/posts/2026-06-03/Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai.10xcrazy.horse/posts/2026-06-03/<p>The Day in AI - 2026-06-03</p> <p>A relatively quiet 24 hours in AI headlines, with the sector still digesting the massive funding rounds and product launches from late May. The through-line remains the intense capital race among frontier labs and the push to turn models into enterprise-grade deployment engines.</p> <h2 id="top-stories">Top stories</h2> <p>Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H round that values the company at $965 billion post-money, the largest single raise in AI history and a clear signal that demand for Claude is outpacing even OpenAI&rsquo;s pace. The capital will fund expanded compute, safety research, and product scaling. Sources: <a href="https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-ai-claude-openai-valuation-86c432fa375548fd4f111f8164d6ffc1">AP News</a>, <a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h">Anthropic official blog</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/28/anthropic-ai-valuation">The Guardian</a>.</p>https://ai.10xcrazy.horse/posts/2026-06-02/Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai.10xcrazy.horse/posts/2026-06-02/<p>Trump signed a voluntary AI executive order giving the government early looks at frontier models for security reviews. Microsoft dropped its first reasoning model and six other in-house MAI models at Build while Alphabet raised $80B for infrastructure. Markets hit records on the AI trade as the EU&rsquo;s data center plan stalled.</p> <h2 id="top-stories">Top Stories</h2> <p><strong>Trump signs downsized AI executive order</strong> — President Trump signed an order asking AI developers to voluntarily give the government early access to frontier models for up to 30 days of testing before public release, focused on cybersecurity and national security risks. The move came after postponing a broader version last month and is positioned as lighter-touch than prior proposals. Multiple outlets covered the same core policy. <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/02/trump-signs-downsized-ai-order-00946389">https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/02/trump-signs-downsized-ai-order-00946389</a> <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/02/trump-executive-order-ai.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/02/trump-executive-order-ai.html</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/06/02/nx-s1-5844347/ai-safety-trump-executive-order">https://www.npr.org/2026/06/02/nx-s1-5844347/ai-safety-trump-executive-order</a></p>https://ai.10xcrazy.horse/posts/2026-06-01/Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://ai.10xcrazy.horse/posts/2026-06-01/<p>Big capital keeps flooding AI infrastructure and agents while universities, retailers, and the Fed already show strain from the spend. Personal AI hardware and robotics both crossed visible thresholds today. Builders get more runway and more noise at the same time.</p> <h2 id="top-stories">Top Stories</h2> <p><strong>Alphabet Will Raise $80 Billion to Fund AI Spending</strong> — Google parent plans an $80 billion equity raise specifically to cover aggressive AI infrastructure plans. The scale signals hyperscalers still see no ceiling on near-term compute demand. <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-06-01/alphabet-will-raise-80-billion-to-fund-ai-spending-video">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-06-01/alphabet-will-raise-80-billion-to-fund-ai-spending-video</a></p>