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.

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.

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.

EU finance ministers will discuss Mythos on Monday. No European government has access to the model. The Bundesbank says the EU must demand it. The White House says no.

Meta beat revenue estimates with $56.3B but daily active people fell 5% QoQ. The company raised AI capex to $145B, cut 8,000 workers, and saw its stock drop 9% after hours.