Google's $40 Billion Bet on Anthropic — And the AI Workforce Reckoning Begins

Google just committed up to $40 billion to Anthropic, capping a week in which the Claude maker secured as much as $65 billion in fresh funding. Meanwhile, Meta and Microsoft announced workforce cuts totaling more than 20,000 jobs in a single day — and both blamed AI. Plus: why you need to rewrite your GPT-5.5 prompts from scratch, and the lawyer who just got suspended for 20 AI hallucinations in one brief. Your Monday AI briefing — five minutes.

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