Anthropic Just Became the World's Most Valuable AI Company. Here's What That Means.

AI First Pod · May 25, 2026 · 6m

Anthropic closed a $30 billion round at $900 billion today — overtaking OpenAI's valuation for the first time. On the same day: the Pope released his first AI encyclical with an Anthropic co-founder by his side, Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic in the biggest talent move of 2026, and a $67 billion utility merger was announced to power AI data centers.