Claude Opus 4.8 Tops Every Benchmark, Anthropic Hits $965B, Apple's Siri Finally Gets an AI Brain
Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of May 29th, 2026. Anthropic dropped Claude Opus 4.8 — beating GPT-5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro on agentic coding, computer use, financial analysis, and Humanity's Last Exam — while simultaneously closing a $65 billion raise that pushed its valuation to $965 billion, surpassing OpenAI for the first time in the company's history, with a Mythos-class public model coming in the weeks ahead. Apple is finally rebuilding Siri from the ground up on Google Gemini, with a dedicated ChatGPT-style app living inside Dynamic Island, AI-powered web search built in, and…
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