
KPMG Goes All-In on Claude, Deploying to 276K Staff
KPMG and Anthropic signed a global alliance giving all 276,000 employees access to Claude, with a dedicated PE product and a preferred-consultant designation for private equity deployments.
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KPMG and Anthropic signed a global alliance giving all 276,000 employees access to Claude, with a dedicated PE product and a preferred-consultant designation for private equity deployments.

Q2 2026 AI API pricing review: DeepSeek V4 hits the API, GPT-5.5 launches at $5/1M, and overall token costs are down 60-80% year-over-year - but a hidden tokenizer change at Anthropic quietly raised effective prices.

Trump scrapped a White House AI executive order signing ceremony at the last minute, citing concerns about US competitiveness - even as Anthropic Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber showed AI can now find and exploit zero-days at scale.

Anthropic projects $10.9B in Q2 revenue and its first-ever $559M operating profit, two years ahead of its own 2028 guidance - but the xAI compute bill arrives in full next quarter.

SpaceX's IPO filing discloses that Anthropic will pay $1.25 billion per month for compute across both Colossus data centers through May 2029, totaling roughly $45 billion.

Claude Opus 4.6 leads MRCR v2 8-needle at 78% across 1M tokens while Opus 4.7 regressed sharply - GPT-5.5 and DeepSeek V4 Pro are the key new entrants in May 2026.

A practical guide to switching from ChatGPT Plus to Claude Pro in 2026, covering Opus 4.7's 1M context window, the new $100 ChatGPT Pro tier, voice mode on both platforms, and the June 15 agent billing split.

Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director, joins Anthropic's pre-training team to build a research program that uses Claude to accelerate its own training.

A benchmark-driven comparison of Claude Opus 4.7 and Gemini 3.1 Pro across coding, reasoning, pricing, and multimodal capabilities in 2026.

Head-to-head comparison of Claude and ChatGPT in 2026: pricing, flagship models, coding, writing, multimodal features, and API costs for developers.

Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the SDK automation startup behind developer tooling used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare, for more than $300 million.

Amazon Q Lite stays cheapest at $3/user, ChatGPT Business dropped to $20 annual, and Anthropic shifted Enterprise to pure usage-based billing.