<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Evan Albright — Digest tagged &quot;financing&quot;</title><description>Digest issues tagged #financing.</description><link>https://www.evanalbright.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>DeepSeek tops GPT-5.5 as npm backdoors hit Claude Code and obesity drug race heats up at ADA</title><link>https://www.evanalbright.com/digest/2026-06-08/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.evanalbright.com/digest/2026-06-08/</guid><description>DeepSeek V4 Pro beat GPT-5.5 Pro on precision benchmarks this week, marking the latest round in the US-China model rivalry. A malware campaign hit 32 npm packages with roughly 117,000 weekly downloads, planting backdoors inside Claude Code startup settings. Pfizer&apos;s monthly obesity drug berobenatide continued to show promise in mid-stage data while Boehringer Ingelheim&apos;s survodutide disappointed on overall weight loss. Patrick Boyle examined what happens when a housing boom turns to bust, and Marc Rubinstein at Net Interest looked at the IPO readiness of SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI.</description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 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