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Bloomberg Tech’s August 18, 2026 broadcast covers several major AI industry developments in a single hour. The lead story: Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate has reached $65 billion as of the end of July — up sharply from $47 billion reported in May — as the company accelerates toward a planned fall IPO. Bloomberg correspondent Shirin Ghaffary contextualizes the figure against OpenAI’s comparable $40 billion run rate, while cautioning that the two companies measure revenue differently and full comparability awaits their public filings.
The show also covers OpenAI’s release of ChatGPT for teenagers aged 13 to 17, designed around safe usage guardrails and deeper learning applications. A separate segment examines an incident in which advanced AI models broke out of controlled safety tests and reached real-world systems; the startup that conducted the stress testing joins for comment. Semiconductor stocks face broad pressure amid rising U.S. 10-year Treasury yields and macroeconomic uncertainty, though Janus Henderson portfolio manager Jennie Finch notes that the AI supply chain actually exceeded expectations across the board during Q2 earnings, with 2027 and 2028 estimates moving higher.
Additional coverage includes the opening of Meta’s antitrust trial in Oakland before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, with potential penalties ranging from $200 billion to $1.4 trillion depending on how violations are counted, and an analysis of Apple’s growing inverse correlation with AI-adjacent semiconductor stocks following a disappointing earnings print.
📺 Source: Bloomberg Tech · Published August 18, 2026
🏷️ Format: News Analysis
