Your daily 5-minute brief on what actually matters in AI — markets, models, agents and infrastructure. By Jean-Louis Quéguiner, founder & CEO of Gladia.
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MCP publishes its 2026-07-28 specification today and goes stateless: no handshake, no session ID, any request on any instance. Meanwhile Dario Amodei sets out Anthropic position on open weights after Nvidia, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral and Hugging Face sign an open letter; OpenAI declines to release the traces of the model that breached Hugging Face; and hundreds of shared Claude chats turn up in Google search over a missing noindex tag. The protocol standardized. The weights, the logs and the data did not.
Apple sues OpenAI for trade secret theft, Helsing raises 1.8 billion dollars at an 18 billion valuation, Gemini 3.5 Pro reportedly lands Thursday, plus the standards war around agent protocols and the day's freshest AI fundings.
ChatGPT Work ships finished docs, slides and sites on its own. Grok 4.5's day-one report card: smarter and more confidently wrong. Ollama raises 65M for local inference. The agent era prices trust, not tokens.
Your daily 5-minute AI brief: Anthropic tops OpenAI at ~$965B, Microsoft ships MAI-Code-1-Flash and MAI-Thinking-1 at Build, $92B of May VC, plus 5 repos, 5 prompts and 5 MCPs to wire in.
The money in AI changed shape: Anthropic's record raise and IPO filing, a $36B chip-financing deal, the public markets reopening for AI, Gemma 4, plus the startups, fundings and GitHub repos to watch — and a prompt to steal.
