Anthropic's $900B Moonshot, Canvas Goes Dark, and Nintendo Hikes Prices

In today's episode: Nintendo says it will increase the price of the Switch 2 to $500, up from $450, globally from September 1, and offers a downbeat performance outlook for 2026 Mozilla says Anthropic's Mythos Preview and other AI models helped it identify and ship 423 Firefox security bug fixes in April, compared to 31 a year earlier French prosecutors escalate an investigation into Elon Musk and X, focused on alleged algorithmic manipulation and sexual deepfakes, to a criminal probe Instructure disables its Canvas edtech platform, used by thousands of schools and universities, amid a data extortion attack claimed by ShinyHunters Sources: Anthropic weighs raising as much as $50B at a ~$900B pre-money valuation, likely closing within two months; its annualized revenue is nearing $45B Sources: White House unease over Mythos has left some administration officials fearful that the change represents a reversal of its hands-off AI policy