# DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, May 18, 2026

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Podcast: [DX Today | No-Hype Podcast & News About AI & DX](https://stenobird.com/podcast/dx-today-no-hype-podcast-news-about-ai-dx-6434212)
Published: 2026-05-18T10:22:38+00:00
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Send us Fan Mail DX Today AI Daily Brief - Monday, May 18, 2026 Today's episode covers Anthropic's negotiations to raise thirty billion dollars at a nine hundred billion dollar valuation, OpenAI's aggressive A.I. model price cuts and new ChatGPT ad platform, the Google I.O. countdown and expected Gemini 4.0 reveal, Anthropic's compute deal for the entire Colossus 1 data center, Meta's eight thousand person layoff round beginning May twentieth, Cloudflare's eleven hundred job cuts, stealth la...

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