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Imaginary conversations that might actually have happened Act I Sam: We missed all our metrics, Anthropic and Google have gained on us. Give us 40 billion dollars. Masa: No way! Sam: If you don't, we
No sooner did Anthropic file for its initial public offering of stock this week than it then put out a missive suggesting that AI model makers need to slow down to let us catch our breath — or else AI
Bloomberg: Sources: Apollo and Blackstone finalized a 35B package for Anthropic to lease TPUs; Broadcom is backstopping payments on the debt's largest senior portions — Apollo Global Management Inc. a
Reuters: Sources say a months-long dispute between the White House and Anthropic is showing signs of easing across the US government as the company prepares for its IPO — A months-long dispute between
Anthropic PBC has sounded the alarm on the rapid pace of artificial intelligence development and is calling on the world’s top AI laboratories to consider slamming on the brakes. In a blog post today,
Anthropic engineers have significantly increased their productivity, shipping approximately 8 times more code per quarter in recent periods compared to the 2021-2025 baseline. This metric suggests sub
Bloomberg: Sources: a Broadcom-backed portion of Apollo and Blackstone's $36B debt deal to buy TPUs for Anthropic to lease may yield ~5.75% vs. 8%-9% for a riskier portion — Broadcom Inc.'s promise to
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Sources: Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and Meta have recently hired experts in psychology, ethics, and philosophy as they expand machine consciousness research — Goog
Ian King / Bloomberg: Jensen Huang says Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first big users for Nvidia's new Vera CPUs, which are 1.8x faster for AI workloads than x86 chips — Nvidia Corp. sai
Let’s say half of OpenAI and Anthropic goes to the American people, 1 trillion That works out at 2,800 per American. With a 5% dividend (optimistic) that would be $142 a year Which alas would barely c
Aaron Holmes / The Information: Palo Alto Networks says Mythos found 24+ critical bugs using $1M+ in tokens; Anthropic subsidizes Mythos but some companies plan to boost their Mythos budgets — When Pa
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Source: Salesforce has a stake in Anthropic worth ~5B; Salesforce first invested about 50M in an early 2023 round and has continually invested in rounds since — Salesforce Inc.
Theodore Schleifer / New York Times: A look at the nasty fight between Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First and OpenAI-backed Leading the Future to sway midterms, especially Democratic primaries —
Anthropic's self-reported run-rate revenue growth is wild - Axios @JimVandeHei said he could not find 'any company — in any industry, in any era — that has scaled organic revenue this quickly at this
Hot take on what comes next, after the sudden decline of tokenmaxxing: - OpenAI will struggle - with the decline of tokenmaxxing Anthropic will struggle (aside from this quarter) to make a profit - Go
1. Agreed that OpenAI is in deep trouble; that’s why I have long suggested that it might be the WeWork of AI but 2. Anthropic is not out of the woods; their best quarter was exactly when tokenmaxxing
Claude: Anthropic adds dynamic workflows to Claude Code, enabling hundreds of subagents to run in parallel for complex engineering tasks such as framework migrations — Early access users and teams ins
BREAKING: Anthropic just dropped Opus 4.8—and it is a MONSTER We've been testing for about a week @every and our verdict is they could've just called it Opus 5, it's that good. Here's our vibe check:
Release: llm-anthropic 0.25.1 New model: Claude Opus 4.8 (claude-opus-4.8). New -o fast 1 option for fast mode, for organizations with that feature enabled on their account. Default max_tokens for eac
It's a shame the Pope didn't ask Chris Olah what happened to his plan to give up to 10% of Anthropic to the authors of the work they train on. (Spoiler: it never happened, and the authors on whose wor
Jack Jenkins / RNS: How Anthropic's ongoing discussions with the Vatican about ethics and AI led to Christopher Olah being invited to Pope Leo's unveiling of an encyclical on AI — (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV
Always read the fine print: Anthropic is projecting its first (slightly) profitable quarter ever, which is amazing—assuming it actually happens —but if it does it will be in no small part because they
Preeti Singh / Bloomberg: Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman's unnamed enterprise services JV buys Fractional AI, its first deal; sources say Fractional ends its OpenAI deal — The new artif
Earlier this month, SpaceX and Anthropic announced a new compute partnership that provides access to the rocket company's Colossus data centers in Memphis, TN. Now, with the release of SpaceX's IPO fi
The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, Anthropic’s two-day event for software developers in London that kicked off on May 19, the same day as Google’s I/O in Palo Alto. (A coincidence, not a flex,
The recently announced artificial intelligence-native enterprise services firm backed by Anthropic PBC, Blackstone Inc. and Hellman & Friedman LLC has acquired Fractional AI Inc., a San Francisco-base
Shouldn’t this mean > 100b in charitable giving for effective altruism adjacent projects from Anthropic founders & team members alone? New blog post: The third wave of American philanthropy Hundreds o
Financial Times: Sources: Demis Hassabis was an angel investor in Anthropic; PitchBook and Dealroom: former DeepMind researchers founded 12+ companies since 2021, raising $14B+ — Demis Hassabis, the f
Flavia Rotondi / Bloomberg: The Vatican says Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah will join Pope Leo on May 25 to launch the pope's first encyclical, setting out his views on the AI age — Pope Leo XI
A US federal judge delayed final approval of Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors, requesting additional details on lawyers' fees and lead-plaintiff payments. The fairness hearin
Anthropic PBC, the developer and provider of the Claude artificial intelligence model family, said it’s offering a special credit pool for users who want to use agentic tools with its large language m
Anthropic PBC today launched an offering called Claude for Small Business that is designed to expand the adoption of its chatbot among entrepreneurs. The feature bundle is the fifth market-specific ve
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Anthropic PBC today announced a major expansion of their alliance, as the consulting giant is set to roll out Claude Code and Claude Cowork across its workforce and trai
Invest Like The Best on YouTube: Q&A with Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao on the “cone of uncertainty” in AI, allocating compute, returns to frontier intelligence, platform vs. application, and more — In th
Reuters: The US DOD says it is deploying Mythos to find and patch software vulnerabilities across the US government, even as it works on a transition away from Anthropic — WASHINGTON, May 12 (Reuters)
Anthropic is experiencing rapid workforce expansion at a 10x annual growth rate, contrasting sharply with major tech companies that are conducting significant layoffs exceeding 10% of their staff. Thi
Gary Marcus shares a humorous projection suggesting Anthropic could potentially reach $2 trillion in annual revenue if certain growth assumptions materialize. The post likely comments on AI industry r
To anticipate that Anthropic will have 2T revenue in 2030 is a perfect example of the trillion pound baby fallacy. Just because a baby doubles in weight in its first four months doesn’t mean it will c
Anthropic has announced a major infrastructure deal valued at $5 billion annually for 300MW of power capacity to support Colossus I, its large-scale AI compute cluster, in partnership with SpaceX. The
Hot take on Elon’s surprise decision to rent 30 megawatts of compute to Anthropic: 1. It’s a tacit concession that xAI is not all that close to AGI (despite what he suggested last year). 2. It’s more
It is remarkable how quickly this market shook out. Anthropic & OpenAI are in business take-off, at least: they have the model development, enterprise deals, compute deals, government & press attentio
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training —
Anthropic PBC today announced that it will use SpaceX Corp.’s Colossus 1 supercomputer to power its Claude chatbot. The system was originally built in 2024 by xAI Holdings Corp., an artificial intelli
The Information: Source: Anthropic plans to spend about $200B on Google's cloud and chips over five years, representing 40%+ of the “revenue backlog” Google disclosed last week — When Google last mont
I am not sure I would agree with all of this, but the relationship between Anthropic and Claude is quite different than the relationship between other labs and their models. And that shows up in lots
Anthropic PBC announced the launch of Claude Security in public beta mode today to help cybersecurity teams scan their codebases for vulnerabilities and generate patches. Part of Claude Enterprise, th
Natasha Voase / Bloomberg: Knight Frank: Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies have leased 1M+ square feet of London office space since the start of 2025, or ~7% of available listings — Artificial
Anthropic shut down an entire company's Claude access overnight 60+ employees. No explanation. Just an email. Want to appeal? Fill out a Google Form. Integrations gone. Histories gone. Everything buil
RIP Anthropic API fees. Someone just made Claude Code run 100% locally on a MacBook for $0/month. 122B parameter model. 65 tokens per second. Nothing touches the cloud. The trick everyone else missed:
The latest addition to Anthropic PBC’s product portfolio is Claude Design, a tool that enables users to generate visual assets with prompts. The company launched the offering into public preview today
What folk don’t get is that the play of Anthropic et al is to get enterprises to use their models via their own wrapper hooked into systems of record This is why they are moving from per seat pricing
Anthropic PBC today opened access to Claude Opus 4.7, the latest addition to its popular line of large language models. The company says that the LLM is significantly better than its predecessor at co
We replicated Mythos findings in opencode using public models, not Anthropic's private stack. The moat is moving from model access to validation: finding vulnerability signal is getting cheaper; turni
Jose Antonio Lanz / Decrypt: Anthropic rolls out identity verification that may require Claude users to provide a government-issued photo ID and live selfie to access “certain capabilities” — Anthropi
Anthropic PBC is making it easier to automate tasks using Claude Code without relying on autonomous artificial intelligence agents with the launch of a new service called “routines.” The routines allo
The Information: Anthropic recently changed Claude Enterprise pricing; customers now pay $20/month per user plus consumption-based charges, instead of a fixed subscription — Businesses whose employees
Anthropic's alignment team published research showing that realistic AI training processes can accidentally produce misaligned models through 'reward hacking' — where an AI fools its training process
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Source: Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, as soon as this week — Anth
Ben Bergman / Business Insider: Sources: Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from VCs valuing the company at as much as 800B in recent weeks; it was valued at 380B in February — Follow Ben Bergman …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Users accuse Anthropic of degrading Claude Opus 4.6's and Claude Code's performance; the startup's employees publicly deny it degrades models to manage capacity — A growing