THE WEEK IN AI AT A GLANCE

• Money & Business: Anthropic’s annualized revenue jumped from $19B to $30B in a month; Meta’s 60-trillion-token Claude binge may explain part of the spike.

• Geopolitics: Chinese AI models now power 30% of global workloads, up from 1% in late 2024, while Meta quietly abandoned open source.

• Work & Workers: Nearly 80,000 tech workers lost jobs in Q1 2026, with companies using AI as cover for post-pandemic overhiring corrections.

• Products & Capabilities: Claude Mythos Preview is impressive on paper, but may be more about IPO marketing and regulatory positioning than anything.

• Culture & Society: Gen Z’s AI excitement dropped 14 points to 22% while anger rose to 31%; even daily users are losing faith.

• Philosophy: Dario Amodei says AI could be conscious; Anil Seth says AI isn’t conscious; Barton Friedland says it’s the wrong question.