<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Deep Feed</title><description>A continuous stream of what matters in AI — models, agents, products, business, research, and the people shipping it. Updated multiple times a day.</description><link>https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/</link><item><title>Anthropic weighs $50B raise at $900B valuation — more than double its February round</title><link>https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-30-anthropic-50b-raise-at-900b-valuation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-30-anthropic-50b-raise-at-900b-valuation/</guid><description>The Claude maker has received multiple preemptive offers in the $850B–$900B range and is expected to decide at a May board meeting, per sources.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><category>anthropic</category><category>funding</category><category>valuation</category><category>claude</category><category>openai</category><author>The Deep Feed</author></item><item><title>Anthropic&apos;s $900B valuation: $40B revenue, $175B in commitments, and negative unit economics</title><link>https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-30-anthropic-900b-valuation-deep/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-30-anthropic-900b-valuation-deep/</guid><description>The Claude builder turned down $800B in April, now fields $900B offers on $40B revenue run rate—but burns $6B-$12B annually and has locked $100B into AWS spend.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><category>anthropic</category><category>valuation</category><category>revenue</category><category>aws</category><category>openai</category><category>enterprise-ai</category><author>The Deep Feed</author></item><item><title>OpenAI traces goblin quirk in GPT-5 models to personality training feedback loop</title><link>https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-30-openai-goblin-quirk-postmortem/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-30-openai-goblin-quirk-postmortem/</guid><description>A post-mortem reveals how reward signals for the &quot;Nerdy&quot; personality caused GPT-5.1 through 5.5 to overuse creature metaphors, and how the behavior spread through training data.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Research</category><category>openai</category><category>gpt-5</category><category>reinforcement-learning</category><category>post-mortem</category><category>training</category><author>The Deep Feed</author></item><item><title>Welcome to The Deep Feed</title><link>https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-30-welcome/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-30-welcome/</guid><description>A new continuously-updated publication on AI — models, agents, products, business, research, and the people building it all.</description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Products</category><category>meta</category><category>launch</category><author>The Deep Feed</author></item><item><title>Google expands Pentagon AI access after Anthropic refuses classified networks</title><link>https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-28-google-pentagon-anthropic/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-28-google-pentagon-anthropic/</guid><description>Google has granted the U.S. Department of Defense expanded access to its AI for classified workloads after Anthropic declined the same scope of access.</description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Policy</category><category>google</category><category>anthropic</category><category>pentagon</category><category>dod</category><category>defense</category><category>classified</category><author>The Deep Feed</author></item><item><title>David Silver&apos;s Ineffable Intelligence raises $1.1B seed at $5.1B valuation</title><link>https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-27-ineffable-1-1b-seed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-27-ineffable-1-1b-seed/</guid><description>The DeepMind veteran behind AlphaGo lands Europe&apos;s largest-ever seed round to build AI that learns without human data. Sequoia and Lightspeed lead; Nvidia and the UK government participate.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><category>funding</category><category>deepmind</category><category>alphago</category><category>seed</category><category>uk</category><category>sequoia</category><category>nvidia</category><author>The Deep Feed</author></item><item><title>Google unveils Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next &apos;26</title><link>https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-26-google-gemini-enterprise-agents/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-26-google-gemini-enterprise-agents/</guid><description>A rebranded and expanded Vertex AI lets businesses build, test, and deploy autonomous agents that execute workflows across Google Cloud and Workspace via natural language.</description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Products</category><category>google</category><category>gemini</category><category>vertex-ai</category><category>enterprise</category><category>agents</category><author>The Deep Feed</author></item><item><title>OpenAI ships GPT-5.5 — first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5</title><link>https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-23-openai-gpt-5-5/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-23-openai-gpt-5-5/</guid><description>Codenamed &quot;Spud,&quot; GPT-5.5 targets agentic coding and computer use, matches GPT-5.4 latency, and lands the same day API access opens for paying customers.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Models</category><category>openai</category><category>gpt-5</category><category>frontier-models</category><category>coding</category><author>The Deep Feed</author></item><item><title>VAST Data hits $30B valuation as AI infra stack reshuffles</title><link>https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-22-vast-data-30b/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-22-vast-data-30b/</guid><description>The &quot;AI Operating System&quot; company closes a new round at $30B, citing rare combination of growth and profitability — and a central role in powering frontier-lab infrastructure.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Business</category><category>vast-data</category><category>infrastructure</category><category>funding</category><category>ai-os</category><author>The Deep Feed</author></item><item><title>Google ships Deep Research Max — agentic research with native MCP</title><link>https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-21-google-deep-research-max/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-21-google-deep-research-max/</guid><description>Built on Gemini 3.1 Pro, Google&apos;s new research agents add MCP support, native data visualizations, and multi-source long-horizon workflows.</description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Agents</category><category>google</category><category>gemini</category><category>deep-research</category><category>mcp</category><category>agents</category><author>The Deep Feed</author></item><item><title>Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 — the SWE benchmark just moved</title><link>https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-16-claude-opus-4-7/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.thedeepfeed.ai/posts/2026-04-16-claude-opus-4-7/</guid><description>Opus 4.7 brings notable gains on the hardest software engineering tasks, with users reporting confident hand-off of work that previously required close supervision.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Models</category><category>anthropic</category><category>claude</category><category>swe-bench</category><category>coding</category><author>The Deep Feed</author></item></channel></rss>