ON THIS DAY
The week the AI labs quietly admitted they were consultancies all along.
Anthropic raised $1.5 billion. OpenAI raised $4 billion. Both for the same thing - putting their own engineers inside other people’s companies. The product was never the model. The product was the engineer next to the model. They just stopped pretending otherwise.
The PUBlish Desk · 5 May 2026
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