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AI Agenda

Will Anthropic and OpenAI Stop Selling Their Best AI to Businesses?

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Aug 17, 2026 7:01am PDT
Anthropic and OpenAI’s move to develop AI applications and features tailored to specific industries continues to worry their customers, some of which must now compete head-on with their main AI suppliers. Design app Canva is the latest to find itself in this predicament, as we reported earlier this month.Through it all, though, most people... Anthropic and OpenAI’s move to develop AI applications and features tailored to specific...
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The Big Read

Anthropic’s ‘First Lady’ Took a Winding Road to the Top

By Cory Weinberg, Jemima McEvoy, Jessica E. Lessin and Stephanie Palazzolo · Aug 13, 2026 2:09pm PDT · 3 comments
Eric Schmidt had plenty of reasons to toast the success of Dario Amodei and Anthropic at a private event the former Google CEO hosted recently. But Schmidt, who is also an early Anthropic investor, made a point to celebrate “Cami and Dario,” the couple seated together at the event. The Cami in question was Amodei’s wife, Camilla Clark, who has... Eric Schmidt had plenty of reasons to toast the success of Dario Amodei and Anthropic at a...
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Applied AI

Anthropic Models Can Be Cheaper to Use Than Chinese Ones, Study Finds

By Laura Bratton · Aug 13, 2026 12:03pm PDT
A recent analysis is challenging the idea that Chinese-made AI is cheaper than offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic. AlphaSense, a software firm that sells AI-powered search and market-research tools, released a study that found proprietary models from OpenAI and Anthropic are actually cheaper for performing some tasks, compared to... A recent analysis is challenging the idea that Chinese-made AI is cheaper than offerings from...
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AI Agenda

OpenAI Raises the Safety Bar on Anthropic; Anthropic Expands Its Revenue Lead

By Amir Efrati · Aug 19, 2026 7:01am PDT
In the Anthropic-OpenAI horse race, the now-much-smaller OpenAI has been looking to slow down its ascendant rival. That includes undercutting Anthropic’s model prices, as we covered yesterday, and playing nice with federal officials that have gone to war with Anthropic.Another potential avenue is safety. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday... In the Anthropic-OpenAI horse race, the now-much-smaller OpenAI has been looking to slow down its...
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Exclusive

Anthropic Prepares Supervoting Power for Founders as it Readies for Mega-IPO

By Cory Weinberg and Valida Pau · Aug 18, 2026 1:29pm PDT
Anthropic has been preparing to give CEO Dario Amodei and other co-founders a class of stock with extra voting power to help insulate them from outside shareholder pressure, two people familiar with the matter said. It would be the first time Anthropic’s leaders have extra voting power, which has become common practice for tech founders. It is... Anthropic has been preparing to give CEO Dario Amodei and other co-founders a class of stock with...
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AI Agenda

OpenAI Gains Against Anthropic Among OpenRouter Customers

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Aug 18, 2026 7:01am PDT · 1 comment
OpenAI has found a new place to fight Anthropic for developer wallets: OpenRouter, a service AI app developers use to access models from different providers from one application programming interface. (In case you’ve been under a rock, Stripe is about to buy OpenRouter for a pretty penny.)A big chunk of OpenRouter’s business recently boiled down... OpenAI has found a new place to fight Anthropic for developer wallets: OpenRouter, a service AI...