Amazon agrees to invest up to 25B in Anthropic, on top of the 8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend $100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Amazon agrees to invest up to 25B in Anthropic, on top of the 8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend 100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years — Amazon has agreed to invest up to 25 billion in Anthropic, on top of the $8 billion that it's poured into the artificial intelligence startup …

Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its 40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~5B each; SoftBank has already invested $30B (Bloomberg)
Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer says Anthropic is 'grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google' and overstating its 'run rate by roughly $8B' (Hayden Field/The Verge)
Sources: Dario Amodei is set to meet with WH Chief of Staff Susie Wiles on Friday, a breakthrough in Anthropic's effort to resolve its fight with the Pentagon (Axios)
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 (Ben Bergman/Business Insider)

Source: Techmeme | 2026-04-20

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