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Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, the sole Big Tech representative at the Vatican's presentation of Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical on AI, warned that frontier AI labs operate within “incentives and constraints that can conflict with doing the right thing” and called for religious communities, governments, and civil society to hold the industry accountable.
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Anthropic Acquires SDK Platform Stainless for at Least $300M, Locking Out OpenAI and Google
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the SDK generation platform that builds official developer libraries for OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare, in a deal reportedly worth over $300 million. The acquisition immediately removes a critical infrastructure layer from competitors, forcing them to rebuild their SDK pipelines while Anthropic gains full control of the tooling that powers API integrations across the AI industry.
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May 18, 2026
OpenAI Acquires Voice-Cloning Startup Weights.gg in a Pre-IPO Cleanup
OpenAI quietly acquired Weights.gg, a voice-cloning startup with a catalog of unauthorized celebrity voice models including Taylor Swift and Samuel L. Jackson, then shut down its consumer app and scattered the team. Analysts call it a pre-IPO legal cleanup masquerading as a talent acquisition.
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