The Most Important Week in AI So Far in 2026 — A Friday Recap
GPT-5.5 launched. Google committed $40 billion to Anthropic. Meta and Microsoft cut 20,000 jobs citing AI. DeepSeek V4 arrived built on Chinese chips. The Microsoft-OpenAI deal got rewritten. And then Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon all passed Wall Street's biggest AI earnings test of the quarter. We close out the week — and look at why Novo Nordisk's OpenAI deal is a signal of where the next phase of AI is headed.
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