## 🔍 Key Insights **Anthropic** set a pre-IPO record for tech giants with H1 2026 revenue nearly **400 times** its full-year 2023 figure, while its IPO governance structure draws attention [7][5]; **NVIDIA** topped the open-weight speech-to-text leaderboard with Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe at **2.8% WER** [8][10]. But a Gartner survey pours cold water on the hype—only **3%** of enterprises have truly achieved cost reduction and efficiency gains through AI [12]. ## 🚀 Top Stories - **Anthropic sets record revenue growth** [7]: H1 2026 revenue is nearly 400 times its full-year 2023 figure, far outpacing pre-IPO performance of giants like Nvidia. - **Anthropic IPO governance structure sparks controversy** [5]: The Long-Term Benefit Trust controls a majority of the 7 board seats, leaving public shareholders with very little say. - **NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe** [8][10]: 30B total parameters, 2.8% WER tied for first among open-weight models, supporting transcription in 40 languages with speaker diarization. - **Gartner: only 3% of enterprises achieve goals with AI** [12]: Although 85% of enterprises plan to increase AI spending by 2027, real-world cost reduction and efficiency gains remain severely lacking. - **OpenAI Codex users surge** [13]: At DevDay France, it was disclosed that Codex weekly active users have grown more than 14x since the start of the year, and ChatGPT Business seats have grown nearly 70%. - **Doubao Work launches record & replay skill** [3]: A Codex-like record & replay feature supporting 30-minute operation recording and cross-software automated replication. - **ModelBest open-sources MiniCPM-OCR series** [19][20]: A 1.3B-parameter model; the 1.2GB version processes 415 pages of documents locally on a Mac at about 4 seconds per page. - **SenseTime open-sources Code2Video** [18]: A lightweight model that creates short videos by generating executable code; weights and generation trajectories are available for download. ## 🔗 Sources [3] Doubao Work launches record & replay skill, author tests cross-software automation and low-risk data collection — https://aihot.news/items/ju0rv2uzlbea0b6tpllclq4g0 [5] TechCrunch analyzes Anthropic IPO governance structure: public shareholders have almost no say over the board — https://aihot.news/items/x1rs553t7mu2o69tdy90e54nc [7] Anthropic H1 2026 revenue nearly 400 times full-year 2023, far outpacing other tech giants' pre-IPO growth — https://aihot.news/items/b3ikymqf9x5hwgkg9jnl7ysid [8] NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, 2.8% WER tied for first in open-weight speech-to-text — https://aihot.news/items/rr7w1nqymm5eog6jm0uz6eukz [10] NVIDIA releases open-weight speech model Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe and Granary v2 data pipeline — https://aihot.news/items/xuahcf5viivhmsqzxnn8shh6p [12] Gartner survey: only 3% of enterprises achieve cost savings and productivity goals through AI — https://aihot.news/items/z6zevnhd6cjajbpxoxsa6bdpb [13