**🎉 Today’s Tech & AI News Digest 🎉**

🤖 AI leaders walk back job apocalypse predictions
Top AI CEOs including Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are reversing earlier warnings that AI would devastate white-collar jobs, now expressing more optimism about economic impact.
https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/sam-altman-dario-amodei-walking-back-ai-jobs-apocalypse-prophecies-ipo/

🚀 Anthropic surges toward IPO with massive funding and model upgrades
Anthropic raised $65B at a near-$1T valuation ahead of an IPO while also launching Claude Opus 4.8 with performance and workflow improvements.

Anthropic raises $65 billion, nears $1T valuation ahead of IPO

🧠 Big tech and startups race to redefine AI assistants
Apple’s revamped Siri and Oculus founders’ startup Sesame both aim to move beyond traditional chatbots toward more fluid, agent-like AI experiences.

Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, launches its iOS app

🏗️ The internet and cloud infrastructure are being rebuilt for AI agents
AWS and others are redesigning core internet and cloud systems to handle the bursty, machine-driven workloads created by autonomous AI agents.

The internet is being rebuilt for machines

💼 Enterprise software pivots hard toward AI-native workflows
Asana’s acquisition of StackAI highlights how workplace software companies are restructuring products around human–AI agent collaboration.

Asana acquires no-code agent-builder StackAI

🎵 AI lowers the barrier to creative production
From AI-powered music creation platforms in China to a $2,000 AI-generated film debuting at Tribeca, generative AI is reshaping creative industries.

Ziyouliangji aims to use AI music platform Hitto to turn everyone into a song creator

🚗 Waymo pushes robotaxis toward commercial scale
Waymo’s new cost-optimized, Chinese-made robotaxi is now carrying riders, signaling a shift from experimentation to profitable autonomous transport.

Waymo’s newest robotaxi is Chinese-made, built to make money, and now accepting riders

📈 Financial markets prepare to trade AI infrastructure
Exchanges worldwide are building futures markets for AI tokens and GPU compute, treating AI capacity like commodities such as oil or gold.

Just like gold and oil, we’ll soon be able to trade AI token futures

🌍 Paris emerges as a global AI hub
Heavy public investment and startups like Mistral AI are positioning Paris as one of the most important AI cities outside Silicon Valley.

Why Paris may be the most important AI city outside Silicon Valley

🔐 Security threats adapt in an AI-driven world
Hackers are exploiting social engineering and automation to target Signal users’ backups in a new wave of phishing attacks.

Hackers are trying to steal Signal users’ backups in new wave of phishing attacks

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