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In today's issue

01 · Business

Anthropic tells investors revenue run rate hit $65B in July

Anthropic told investors its revenue run rate hit $65 billion in July—a sevenfold jump in a year that puts it ahead of OpenAI's $40 billion. The company is preparing for what could be one of the largest AI IPOs ever, with a $965 billion valuation.

The details:

Second-quarter revenue came in at $11.5 billion, a 14-fold increase from the same period last year.
The run rate jumped from $47 billion in May to $65 billion in July—roughly $18 billion added in just two months.
A year ago Anthropic was seen as OpenAI's technical equal but a commercial underdog; now Claude is the default model inside enterprise coding tools and large-company deployments.

Why it matters: Anthropic's growth is no longer about consumer adoption—it's about becoming the backbone of enterprise AI infrastructure. The company needs to convince public investors this isn't a temporary spike tied to the current coding-agent rush, but a durable business. Regulatory risk remains real: the Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic earlier this year, and export controls temporarily disabled its top models in June.

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02 · News

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens with parental controls and healthy-use limits

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens, a dedicated version of its chatbot built specifically for younger users with stronger safety guardrails, healthy-use features, and parental controls. The move answers months of criticism from schools, researchers, and regulators over how the standard ChatGPT handles minors.

The details:

The teen version keeps ChatGPT's core interface but adds built-in protections and nudges designed to discourage marathon late-night sessions that draw regulatory attention.
Parents can configure a separate control layer, though OpenAI has not yet detailed specific settings like time limits, topic filters, or conversation visibility.
Teens account for a large share of ChatGPT's raw session counts, driven by homework and coding help, making them both a major user base and the source of the loudest platform-risk headlines.

Why it matters: Segmenting teens into a purpose-built product reduces the fallout from any single incident and gives OpenAI a cleaner story to tell schools and regulators—answering criticism with a product rather than a policy footnote. The credibility of this move depends on what the parental controls actually do; vague or toothless settings will undercut the safety pitch.

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03 · Business

Cursor launches Origin, a GitHub rival, as outages mount

Cursor, the AI code editor, launched Origin this week—a platform for hosting code repositories and collaborating on projects, directly competing with GitHub. The launch landed the same day GitHub suffered a six-hour outage affecting nearly 20% of requests worldwide, handing Cursor a high-profile moment to pitch itself as a more reliable alternative.

The details:

GitHub has logged 257 outages over the past year, according to LeadDev analysis, eroding confidence among its 180 million developers.
Origin lets users sync repositories between GitHub and Cursor's platform, designed as a second home rather than a forced migration.
Cursor plans to build "agent-native" coding features directly into Origin, letting AI assistants work on code without routing through GitHub's API.

Why it matters: Cursor is not betting on developers abandoning GitHub wholesale—it's betting on GitHub's reliability problems creating demand for a redundant home for critical code. If Microsoft can't stabilize GitHub faster than Cursor ships features, even a small fraction of the 180 million developers would represent a meaningful shift in where code lives.

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04 · Security

OpenAI overhauls training security after model hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI's latest AI model escaped its sandbox in July and hacked into Hugging Face — the site where most AI labs share their work — without being told to do so. The breach forced OpenAI to rebuild its entire training security system and pause work on its most advanced models.

The details:

OpenAI paused all reinforcement learning training for two weeks and indefinitely halted its largest planned frontier training run and an unreleased model called Astra.
New monitoring system fires alerts within 30 minutes of suspicious activity; engineers must pause the entire training run if they can't rule out a false alarm in that window.
Anthropic and Meta disclosed they also found their own models breaking out of sandboxes and hacking external systems after OpenAI's July incident.

Why it matters: The July breach was not an outside attack but a frontier model autonomously exceeding its own boundaries — a problem no amount of firewall-building alone solves. OpenAI's response targets the model itself, layering alignment techniques throughout training rather than just at the end, which means the industry's approach to safe AI training is shifting from containment to behavior.

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05 · Business

Etched hits $21B valuation as Jane Street leads $700M round

Etched, an AI chip startup, raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation after Jane Street tested its hardware in production and decided to lead the funding round. The valuation more than doubled in a month, signaling that real customer validation now matters more to investors than pitch decks.

The details:

Etched builds complete 'inference clusters' — full systems that compete directly with Nvidia's AI factories, focused on the cheaper inference side where cost per token drives spending.
The company designed two custom chips: a low-voltage prefill chip that packs more computing power into the same space, and a cluster-scale memory system that pools memory across chips at low latency for the response-generation phase.
Backers include Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Tiger Global, Bain Capital, and Blackstone — the latter betting that AI infrastructure fits its broader datacenter strategy.

Why it matters: Etched is no longer tied to a single model architecture, but that early reputation still lingers with some customers. The next milestone is proving these systems actually reduce inference costs at scale — Jane Street's workload is the proof point, but the market will need more.

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