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Anthropic closed at $965 billion today and overtook OpenAI as the most valuable AI company. The same week a Texas data-center developer sued his county for $100 million for pausing his build. PickBits Daily May 29, 2026

By Mark Pickering · 2026-05-29 Read on Substack ›

Anthropic closes $65B at $965B post-money, leapfrogs OpenAI, ships Claude Opus 4.8. Texas developer countersues Hill County for $100M over moratorium. Pennsylvania Shapiro sets first state cost-allocation standards. CNN sues Perplexity for scraping 17,000 stories. Fake Claude installers on GitHub drain crypto wallets. Apple+Google force Canada to pull encryption backdoor from Bill C-22.

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