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The Pondero Brief
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-26: Anthropic tells Senate, Alibaba ran 28.8M Claude queries
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-25: GPT-4.5 leaves ChatGPT Saturday, check routing
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-24: Five Eyes warns offense is months away
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-23: Continue is dead, you have 22 days to export
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-22: Mythos breached NSA classified systems in hours
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-21: Fable 5 hits day 9, paid trial dies June 22
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-19: OpenAI lands the Transformer's co-author pre-IPO
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-18: SpaceX buys Cursor for $60B, ships its own model
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-17: AI vendor lock-in just became a board-level risk
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-16: OpenAI burned $34B in 2025 for a $38.5B net loss
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-15: 42 state AGs subpoena OpenAI after IPO filing
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-12: German court makes Google own its AI answers
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-10: Fable 5 at 2x Opus pricing, plus the S-1 and WWDC moves
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-09: Siri rebuilt on Gemini, Claude now an iOS default
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-08: One data center bills $2B/month to two AI labs
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-05: Alphabet's $84.75B AI compute raise closes today
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-04: Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash Beats Haiku 4.5 by 16 Points on SWE-Bench Pro
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-03: Anthropic files S-1, Cursor splits pricing, and the $19/seat gap widens
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-02: Copilot's token billing went live, $750/mo math
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Pondero Brief: 2026-06-01: Copilot's token billing is live, and the per-model math matters
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Pondero Brief: 2026-05-29: Opus 4.8 catches 4x more code flaws, costs 15x per Copilot request
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Pondero Brief: 2026-05-28: Anthropic built a model too dangerous to release publicly
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Pondero Brief: 2026-05-27: $900B Anthropic, 5 days to new Copilot billing
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Pondero Brief: 2026-05-26: Gemini Spark at $100/mo, privacy catch included
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Pondero Brief: 2026-05-25: KPMG bets 276,000 employees on Claude, and two Big Four firms chose the same vendor
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Pondero Brief: 2026-05-21: Claude agents now run on your own infrastructure
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Pondero Brief: 2026-05-19: Stainless joins Anthropic, five SDKs move in-house
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Pondero Brief: 2026-05-13: Anthropic Dreaming is live, local LLMs on M4 Mac
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