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💰 Anthropic racing to close $900B round in two weeks, UK job-seekers roast AI interviews

May 1, 2026 · Evening brief · 11 news · 4:49

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Anthropic gunning for a $900B round, India turns ChatGPT image-gen up to 11, Huawei chips mobbed by ByteDance & Alibaba, AI interviews leaving humans in tears, open-source lightning round, algorithms warping our taste—rush-hour chaos!

Today's Top 3 Headlines

  1. AI Industry News

    🤖 Anthropic eyes $900B valuation, new round in 2 weeks

    Anthropic gives investors 48 hrs to pledge; $900B+ round set to close in 2 wks. A new mega-unicorn will turbocharge the LLM arms race and compute demand.

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  2. AI Industry News

    🤖 47% UK job-seekers hit AI interviews, 30% quit: "experience sucked"

    Greenhouse: 47% of UK job-seekers now face AI interviews, 30% quit mid-way citing “humiliation.” For HireVue et al., opacity and zero empathy erase the speed gains.

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  3. Technology

    🤖 ChatGPT Images 2.0 debuts: India tops weekly users

    ChatGPT Images 2.0’s first week makes India its #1 market, with users mass-producing personalized visuals. This proves OpenAI’s multilingual visual loop works first in emerging markets, teeing up localized subscriptions and ad templates.

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