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May 2026

Claude's Honest Haul, Figure Leaves the Line, and SpaceX's Big Bang
This week in AI: Inside Anthropic's Opus 4.8 upgrade and near-trillion-dollar raise, Figure's humanoids head into retail logistics, and SpaceX files for…
 • Alex Banks
How to Master Claude Design (for Beginners)
Your new go-to for any deck, brief, or pitch.
 • Alex Banks
Google Goes Agentic, Hark’s Big Bet, and Starbucks' Milk Run
This week in AI: Google declares the agentic Gemini era, Hark raises $700M at a $6B valuation, and Starbucks scraps its AI inventory tool after it kept…
 • Alex Banks
6 AI tools for the people still doing everything in ChatGPT
Because one chatbot is a tool, six is a workflow.
 • Alex Banks
Anthropic Pulls Away, OpenAI Strikes Back, and Google's Gemini Rising
This week in AI: Anthropic hits $44B ARR and partners with Gates, OpenAI launches a $4B deployment company, Google reimagines the cursor.
 • Alex Banks
How to build a voice agent in Claude
Claude now configures ElevenLabs for you.
 • Alex Banks
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SpaceXAI's Spice Trade, Anthropic Targets the Trillion, and OpenAI's Stack Sweep
This week in AI: Inside Elon's multi-billion compute deal with Anthropic, why investors are pricing Claude as infrastructure, and the quiet networking…
 • Alex Banks
The art of delegation in the age of AI
The psychology of handing real work over.
 • Alex Banks
Gemini Gets to Work, Claude's Big Pull, and OpenAI Unchained
This week in AI: Gemini now produces Docs, Sheets, and Slides inline, Claude becomes the hub for creative and security workflows, and OpenAI's frontier…
 • Alex Banks

April 2026

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