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AI's infrastructure story took center stage this weekend, with a jaw-dropping $35 billion chip financing deal for Anthropic and fresh allegations that xAI covertly trained Grok on Claude's outputs. Meanwhile, OpenAI is betting the house on a "super app" future — and Perplexity just handed developers a new way to build smarter search pipelines. Here's everything you need to know.

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OpenAI is preparing a major revamp of ChatGPT in the coming weeks, transforming it into a "super app" packed with coding tools and AI agents, according to the Financial Times. A senior OpenAI employee declared "Chat is dead," signaling a fundamental shift away from simple conversation and toward becoming an all-in-one productivity platform. The move is designed to deepen monetization and close the gap with Anthropic ahead of a potential IPO. Source →

Apollo Global Management and Blackstone have closed a $35 billion debt financing package to purchase Google TPU chips for Anthropic — one of the largest private credit transactions ever assembled. The deal uses a special-purpose vehicle to buy the chips and lease them back to Anthropic, keeping the debt off Anthropic's balance sheet entirely. Broadcom is backstopping the senior notes, effectively transferring credit risk from the AI startup to a $500 billion semiconductor company. Source →

Elon Musk's xAI reportedly spent months using Anthropic's Claude to train its own coding models via model distillation, and continued doing so through personal accounts and an intermediary service called Blackbox AI after Anthropic revoked official access in January 2026. Anthropic's terms explicitly prohibit using Claude outputs to train competing systems. The report also reveals xAI's internal coding team shrank to fewer than five people, four Grok code leads departed, and critical training data was accidentally deleted. Source →

Perplexity has launched Search as Code, a new reference architecture that lets AI agents write their own Python search workflows instead of making repeated calls to a fixed endpoint. The company claims its approach achieves 85.1% lower token usage and 100% accuracy on software vulnerability benchmarks — though those figures come from Perplexity's own tests and await independent validation. The feature is live in Perplexity Computer and the Perplexity Agent API. Source →

New York-based Flourish closed a $500 million Series A at a $2.5 billion valuation, with Jeff Bezos writing one of the largest checks alongside Lux Capital, GV (Alphabet's venture arm), and Catalio Capital. The company is building Cortex AI, a system that maps real neurons and their connections — a field called connectomics — to emulate brain function. Unlike today's GPU-hungry models, Cortex AI targets 20–50 watts of power consumption, roughly equivalent to a laptop. Source →

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