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At least $11.6 billion over seven years is what Anthropic will pay Akamai for cloud services, per The Wall Street Journal, and Akamai says a potential $9 billion expansion could lift the total to around $20 billion.
Per Axios, a memo making the rounds in the White House this week says effective altruism "built the AI-doom pipeline" and places Dario Amodei at its foundation, as Anthropic readies what's expected to be a record-setting IPO.
Amazon opened its seller tools to Claude, with a plugin that checks inventory, adjusts prices and updates listings outside Seller Central. Setup takes about 60 seconds, and every action still waits for the seller's approval.
Investors are being asked to value a lab that might change the world or destroy it. Anthropic was poised this month to file for a $2T IPO, until fears of an AI apocalypse crashed their way into the mainstream.
Anthropic pulled in Accenture to run independent evaluation of frontier AI, and both companies expect to invest at least $1 billion over the next five years to build capacity for that work.
Anthropic meets prospective investors in the coming days, but the offering itself waits until November, per the Wall Street Journal. Advisers want third-quarter financials on the table first, after OpenAI's Astra landed in September.
In a Bay Area wet lab, Claude is directing robotic units through physical biology experiments. Anthropic confirmed the setup to Reuters, aiming at preclinical work big pharma finds "financially unattractive".
Four people familiar with the talks told CNBC that Anthropic is sounding out 20–30 MW compute deals in the U.K. and the Nordics, small slices next to the roughly 460 MW it rents from Nscale in West Virginia.
Teams on Vercel's AI Gateway are shifting work off Fable 5 onto the cheaper Opus 5, and Anthropic still collected 64 cents of every dollar spent there in August, while open-weight models moved 56% of the tokens.
The maker of Ozempic now has two frontier labs inside R&D: Novo sealed a deal for OpenAI's GPT-Rosalind in April and partnered with Anthropic on Wednesday, putting Claude Science on scientific reasoning.
Profitable twice in a row: Anthropic has told investors that adjusted operating income will be positive for a second straight quarter, per Reuters, though the size of the profit went unmentioned.
Business Insider reports Anthropic has picked Nasdaq for its potential IPO, with the listing still aimed at October. The report names the exchange and stops there, so size, pricing and the exact date stay open.
Up to $10 billion is what Nvidia is weighing as an anchor investor in Anthropic's IPO, a person familiar told Reuters. The offering is chasing as much as $100 billion at a valuation of around $2 trillion.
Your Anthropic spend commitment now buys CrowdStrike Falcon, Cursor, Factory, Gamma or Vercel. The Claude Marketplace opened in March with six partners, and Crypto Briefing counts eleven after this round.
Eleven months of Anthropic compute deals come to $517 billion and 14.8GW by DataCenterDynamics' count, a total that stacks up already-announced contracts such as the $45 billion Nscale rental.
Anthropic walked away from the $6 billion Decart acquisition, Bloomberg reports, dropping what would have been its largest known deal ahead of an IPO. The two may still find other ways to collaborate, one person says.
Boris Cherny joined Anthropic and proposed a code analysis tool. Ben Mann told him the idea wasn't big enough, and the prototype that came out instead shipped as Claude Code in February 2025.
Bankers at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Citi are working toward a listing days before November's U.S. midterms, people familiar with the matter say, after Anthropic's IPO prospectus slipped to late September.
$200 billion is the figure the Financial Times attaches to the Wall Street financing Google has built around Anthropic. The report is paywalled, so how the sum breaks down stays with FT subscribers.
"This site does about ¥200,000 in daily sales," one AI account marketplace advertises, about $28,000. Threat researcher Matt Lenhard traced that supply to brokers, one a UK-registered front sourcing 1,000+ Claude accounts a month.
