WEEKEND EDITION

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Saturday, August 22, 2026

This week in AI brought several developments worth watching closely.

FROM AI THINKERS

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WEEK IN NUMBERS

500%

[AINews] Memory prices up 500% in 12 months

$65B

Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

$18 billion

Anthropic’s annualized revenue surges to $65B

$7B

[AINews] Stripe buys OpenRouter for $7B

90%

Analysis: Why Revolut Survived and the Metaverse Didn't, a Tale of Financial Fas

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

“OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates”

— Julie Bort, TechCrunch AI

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See you Monday.