Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 with a 13% lift on coding benchmarks and 3x more production tasks resolved versus its predecessor. New features include high-res vision support up to 3.75MP and a faster tokenizer. Available across API, Bedrock, and Vertex at the same price. (Axios)

Slash, a business banking platform competing with Ramp, raised a $100M Series C at a $1.4B valuation led by Ribbit Capital. The company went from $10M to $300M in annualized revenue in 24 months and processes $30B+ in payment volume. The founders are 24 years old. (TechCrunch)

Expo, the open-source React Native platform used by millions of developers, raised a $45M Series B led by Georgian. Alongside the raise, it launched Expo Agent, an AI that acts as an embedded solutions engineer, taking projects from idea to production-ready mobile app in minutes without native expertise. (SiliconANGLE)

This sounds familiar. Allbirds announced it's selling its entire footwear brand and pivoting to GPU-as-a-Service under the name "NewBird AI," backed by a $50M deal for GPU assets. The stock surged 582% on the announcement, then crashed 36% the next day as reality set in. William Blair dropped coverage and called the pivot a "Hail Mary." When a wool sneaker company ditches shoes for GPUs, we're either at peak hype or very close. (Bloomberg)

Sal Khan announced the Khan TED Institute, a joint venture with TED and ETS offering a competency-based bachelor's degree in applied AI for under $10,000, completable in 3 years or less. Launch partners include Google, Microsoft, McKinsey, Accenture, Bain, and Replit. Applications open in 12-24 months. Competency-based credentials are coming whether traditional universities like it or not. (Fortune)

A Presidential Library Like No Other Opens on July 4th in the Badlands

In 1883, a 24-year-old New Yorker stepped off a train in the Dakota Badlands to hunt bison. He left two years later as a different man. That New Yorker was Theodore Roosevelt, and the landscape that forged him is about to get a $250 million monument unlike any presidential library ever built.

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opens July 4, 2026 in Medora, North Dakota, right at the edge of Theodore Roosevelt National Park's South Unit. It's the first new presidential library in over a decade and the first designed to be entirely sustainable: the building's earthen roof slopes into the hillside so visitors can walk up it and look out over the same Badlands that changed TR's life 143 years ago.

This isn't a marble vault full of documents. The library is designed as an active experience, blending landscape architecture with interactive exhibits on conservation, leadership, and the American West. The architect, Snohetta (the firm behind the 9/11 Memorial Pavilion), oriented the entire building around the view. The Badlands are the exhibit. Medora itself is a town of 130 people, and the library is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of visitors annually to one of America's least-visited corners.

The opening celebration runs the first week of July 2026. Fly into Bismarck (2.5 hours) or Billings, MT (4 hours). Book lodging early — Medora's hotels are small and will sell out fast. The library sits minutes from Theodore Roosevelt National Park, which offers some of the best hiking, wildlife viewing, and stargazing in the country with a fraction of the crowds at Yellowstone. More info at trlibrary.com.

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