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#1Anthropic Closes $65B Series H at $965B Valuation, Eclipsing OpenAI

Anthropic announced today it has closed a massive $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, making it the most valuable private AI startup in the world, surpassing OpenAI's $852 billion valuation from March. The round was co-led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital, Capital Group, Coatue, and D1 Capital Partners, with strategic participation from Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, and includes $15 billion in previously committed hyperscaler investments including $5 billion from Amazon. Anthropic's run-rate revenue has crossed $47 billion, and the company is on pace for its first profitable quarter.

🔗 Bloomberg / TechCrunch

#2Cisco: Every Frontier AI Model Fails Under Multi-Turn Attacks

New research from Cisco's AI threat intelligence team published today finds that every frontier large language model in a 15-model cohort failed a meaningful share of multi-turn adversarial attacks, with safety benchmarks dramatically underestimating real-world vulnerability. OpenAI's GPT-5.4 saw its attack success rate jump roughly ninefold under iterative pressure, from low single digits to nearly 25%, revealing a dangerous gap between published safety scores and actual adversarial resilience.

🔗 Help Net Security / CSO Online

#3KPMG Deploys Claude to 276,000 Employees Across 138 Countries

KPMG and Anthropic formalized a global strategic alliance embedding Claude Cowork and Managed Agents directly into KPMG's Digital Gateway platform on Microsoft Azure, giving all 276,000 KPMG employees access to AI-powered workflows. The deployment starts with Tax and Legal and expands to advisory services, with full rollout by September 2026. KPMG also launched KPMG Blaze, which embeds Claude Code for legacy IT modernization.

🔗 Anthropic

#4YouTube Will Auto-Detect and Label AI-Generated Videos

YouTube announced today it will begin automatically detecting and labeling photorealistic AI-generated content, moving AI disclosure labels from the video description to prominently below the video player. If creators fail to self-disclose, YouTube's internal detection systems will apply labels automatically. The policy targets realistic AI content specifically and does not penalize creators in recommendations or monetization.

🔗 YouTube Blog

#5Meta Launches Paid Subscriptions With AI Tiers for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp

Meta rolled out consumer subscriptions globally yesterday: Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus at $3.99/month and WhatsApp Plus at $2.99/month, with Meta One Premium at $19.99/month offering deeper AI reasoning and expanded image and video generation. The company is consolidating all offerings under the Meta One brand and testing creator and business plans at $14.99 and $49.99 in select markets.

🔗 TechCrunch

#6OpenAI Launches $4B DeployCo Consulting Subsidiary

OpenAI launched the OpenAI Deployment Company, a majority-owned subsidiary with over $4 billion in initial investment and a $10 billion pre-money valuation, designed to embed frontier AI into enterprise operations. DeployCo acquired London-based Tomoro for its 150 Forward Deployed Engineers and counts TPG, Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Bain, and Capgemini among its 19 founding partners.

🔗 OpenAI / Axios

#7Sesame Launches iOS Conversational AI App From Oculus Founders

Sesame, co-founded by Oculus creator Brendan Iribe, publicly launched its iOS app today in 39 countries, featuring four conversational AI agents that prioritize natural conversational flow over traditional chatbot interfaces. The free-for-now app is a stepping stone toward Sesame's ultimate play: intelligent AI eyewear planned for 2027.

🔗 TechCrunch

#8Anthropic Acquires Stainless for $300M+, Shuts Down Hosted SDK Tools

Anthropic acquired Stainless, the startup whose SDK generator was used by OpenAI, Google, Cloudflare, and Runway, for over $300 million. Anthropic will wind down all hosted Stainless products, effectively cutting off a key developer tool used by its competitors. The acquisition consolidates Anthropic's control over its API toolchain as the agentic AI race accelerates.

🔗 TechCrunch

#9Google Gemini 3.5 Flash Now Generally Available

Google's Gemini 3.5 Flash, announced at I/O 2026, is now generally available across the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Android Studio, and the Gemini app. The model delivers 4x faster output than competing frontier models, scores 76.2% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, and is priced at $1.50/$9.00 per million input/output tokens, undercutting competitors on cost by more than half.

🔗 Google Blog

#10Microsoft AI Chief Predicts All White-Collar Work Automated Within 18 Months

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicted that AI will reach human-level performance across most professional tasks within 18 months, naming accounting, legal, marketing, and project management as immediately vulnerable to full automation. The statement, one of the boldest timelines from a major tech executive, generated significant debate about AI-driven workforce displacement.

🔗 Fortune
Kilroy’s Daily Briefings · 5/28/2026