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Anthropic Seeks Palantir-Style Voting Control for Seven Co-Founders Ahead of IPO

By Cory Weinberg, Valida Pau and Julia Hornstein · Sep 24, 2026 2:53pm PDT · 2 comments

Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve a new corporate structure that would award CEO Dario Amodei and his six cofounders a special class of shares giving them collective voting control in most corporate matters, according to people familiar with the planning. The new arrangement, which emulates a founder-control structure at Palantir,... Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve a new corporate structure that would award CEO...

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Google, OpenAI and Anthropic AI Safety Group Takes Shape

By Leo Schwartz and Stephanie Palazzolo · Sep 24, 2026 6:00am PDT

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing forward with a plan to create a new AI safety-focused standards body on their own, without government oversight, in hopes of launching it by the end of the year or early in 2027, according to people familiar with the matter. The three companies tentatively plan to name the self-regulatory organization the... Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are pushing forward with a plan to create a new AI safety-focused...

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Anthropic in Talks for 1-Gigawatt Data Center Lease With Apollo-Backed Developer

By Valida Pau and Amir Efrati · Sep 22, 2026 7:21pm PDT

Anthropic is in early talks to lease up to 1 gigawatt in compute capacity from a data center developer majority-owned by Apollo Global Management, part of a major effort by the AI company to reduce its reliance on cloud providers. The maker of Claude has discussed signing on as a direct tenant of sites developed by Stream Data Centers, a... Anthropic is in early talks to lease up to 1 gigawatt in compute capacity from a data center...

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New Data Show Anthropic, OpenAI and Other Upstarts Are Eating into Software Budgets

By Laura Bratton · Sep 22, 2026 10:38am PDT

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New Data Show Anthropic, OpenAI and Other Upstarts Are Eating into Software Budgets

By Laura Bratton · Sep 22, 2026 10:38am PDT

We’ve been reporting for months about how companies are shifting some traditional software spending to Anthropic and OpenAI. New data from procurement software firm Zip provides further evidence.AI providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, and Sierra accounted for 8% of spending by Zip customers in the 12 months that ended in August, up from... We’ve been reporting for months about how companies are shifting some traditional software...

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Software Firms Discount AI to Keep Customers From Anthropic, OpenAI

By Laura Bratton, Aaron Holmes and Catherine Perloff · Sep 22, 2026 6:01am PDT

Software firms and cloud providers including Amazon, Microsoft, Figma and Workday are dangling new discounts on AI products to clients and consulting partners exhausted by shifts in pricing. The special offers come as customers get choosier about which tools they purchase after they increased budgets for products like Anthropic’s Claude Code and... Software firms and cloud providers including Amazon, Microsoft, Figma and Workday are dangling...

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China Probes DeepSeek, Moonshot Over Potential Data Leaks to Anthropic

By Qianer Liu and Jing Yang · Sep 22, 2026 4:18am PDT

China’s internet regulator is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic alleged both companies had been routing sensitive user data to Claude models, according to people with knowledge of the matter. In a 154-page report published on Sept. 10, Anthropic detailed how seven Chinese companies were using Claude illicitly on a widespread... China’s internet regulator is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic alleged both...

Dario Amodei, left, and Sam Altman. Photos by Getty Image

OpenAI and Anthropic Neared Deal to Stress Test Each Other’s AI

By Amir Efrati and Stephanie Palazzolo · Sep 21, 2026 6:55am PDT

OpenAI is rethinking a range of safety strategies as it responds to fears from employees and others about the dangers its AI poses. One solution could lie in the recent past. Even before the spate of cybersecurity incidents involving OpenAI’s technology and the dire warnings from industry workers, the company was negotiating a legally binding... OpenAI is rethinking a range of safety strategies as it responds to fears from employees and...

Anthropic co-founder and president Daniela Amodei. Getty Images.

Anthropic IPO Waiting Game Puts Wall Street on Edge

By Cory Weinberg · Sep 18, 2026 2:55pm PDT · 1 comment

Anthropic co-founder and president Daniela Amodei. Getty Images.

Anthropic IPO Waiting Game Puts Wall Street on Edge

By Cory Weinberg · Sep 18, 2026 2:55pm PDT · 1 comment

Anthropic finance chief Krishna Rao and other executives met with groups of prospective public investors last month with his company’s numbers looking spiffier than ever. The company had gone from spending about $2.30 on operations for every $1 of revenue in spring of 2025 to turning a slight profit on that basis in the June... Anthropic finance chief Krishna Rao and other executives met with groups of prospective public...

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Is Anthropic Making Claude Too Human to Control?

By Aaron Holmes · Sep 16, 2026 7:02am PDT

Anthropic’s call to slow down AI development to keep humans safe has dominated the news cycle and drew similar calls from the leaders of OpenAI, Microsoft and others (and subtle disagreement from Mark Zuckerberg). But Mustafa Suleyman, who runs Microsoft’s AI model development, has a warning about Anthropic itself. Suleyman, who... Anthropic’s call to slow down AI development to keep humans safe has dominated the news cycle and...

Anthropic, OpenAI ‘Pacing’ Spooks Some Startup Customers

Anthropic, OpenAI ‘Pacing’ Spooks Some Startup Customers

By Julia Hornstein · Sep 15, 2026 4:25pm PDT

It’s not clear what impact the pledges by Anthropic and OpenAI to slow the pace of AI development will have on their upcoming public offerings. But the comments are having real effects already: more people outside Silicon Valley and Washington are now alert to potential risks from AI in a way they weren’t even very recently. That’s not great... It’s not clear what impact the pledges by Anthropic and OpenAI to slow the pace of AI development...

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Why Anthropic’s Data Policy Drama Is Good for OpenAI

By Laura Bratton · Sep 15, 2026 11:28am PDT

Major Anthropic customers are still waiting to get “zero data retention” for the newest Fable AI models, meaning the AI firm would not store data related to their usage of its models. In the meantime, some are turning to OpenAI. Palantir and Booz Allen, for instance, are expanding their use of OpenAI’s Astra model, which they’ve been able... Major Anthropic customers are still waiting to get “zero data retention” for the newest Fable AI...

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Developers Find Ways to Use Claude Code Without Anthropic Models

By Alix Coutures · Sep 15, 2026 7:00am PDT

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Developers Find Ways to Use Claude Code Without Anthropic Models

By Alix Coutures · Sep 15, 2026 7:00am PDT

Boris Cherney, the head of Anthropic’s coding tool Claude Code, last month found himself in the middle of an online spat that highlighted how some developers are finding workarounds to using Claude Code with cheaper non-Anthropic models, including those of rival OpenAI, to save costs.Developer Alex Getman used a proxy made up of lines of code to... Boris Cherney, the head of Anthropic’s coding tool Claude Code, last month found himself in the...

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Anthropic Data Fears Prompt Nvidia, Palantir and Booz Allen to Restrict Model Use

By Laura Bratton and Aaron Holmes · Sep 14, 2026 6:00am PDT · 2 comments

As paranoia rises over whether Anthropic or OpenAI could learn from their customers’ intellectual property, large firms involved in sensitive corporate work, such as Palantir Technologies, Nvidia and Booz Allen Hamilton, have started demanding new guarantees or reducing or eliminating use of the AI firms’ most advanced models. As paranoia rises over whether Anthropic or OpenAI could learn from their customers’ intellectual...

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Anthropic Strikes $13.7 Billion Compute Deal With Trump-Linked Rum Group

By Valida Pau and Phoebe Liu · Sep 13, 2026 6:07pm PDT

Anthropic has signed a computing deal worth $13.7 billion over six years with Rum Group, a company with roots in social media and long-standing ties to the Trump administration, according to a person familiar with the matter. The deal is the latest in a spate of cloud computing agreements Anthropic struck in the past year, with major cloud... Anthropic has signed a computing deal worth $13.7 billion over six years with Rum Group, a...

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Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Quietly Discussed an AI Safety Standards Body

By Leo Schwartz · Sep 13, 2026 12:16pm PDT · 1 comment

Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have been holding discussions about working together to create a standards body for the AI industry, people familiar with the matter said, even before Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on Saturday for AI companies to coordinate on testing and auditing the technology. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, for his part, told staff at... Anthropic, OpenAI and Google have been holding discussions about working together to create a...

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Early Anthropic Investor Seeks VC Glory With Cash and Compute

By Eli Rosenberg · Sep 12, 2026 6:16am PDT · 5 comments

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Early Anthropic Investor Seeks VC Glory With Cash and Compute

By Eli Rosenberg · Sep 12, 2026 6:16am PDT · 5 comments

A few months ago, venture capitalist Anjney Midha received a present from his wife while on a trip to Hawaii: a felt, tan-colored Stetson with his name monogrammed on the side. The hat was meant to cover up a brain sensor Midha has been wearing to gather neurological data for one of the many frontier startups he’s invested in. But it’s since... A few months ago, venture capitalist Anjney Midha received a present from his wife while on a...