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AI Agenda

What Anthropic Doomsayer Jacob Coxon Saw

By Rocket Drew · Sep 10, 2026 7:01am PDT · 1 comment
Yesterday, Amir and I examined the shock waves that have rippled through the AI industry and far beyond since former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon very publicly quit his job over concerns that AI “could kill us all”—and another Anthropic AI safety specialist put the probability of such a catastrophe at greater than 10%.Coxon told me that is... Yesterday, Amir and I examined the shock waves that have rippled through the AI industry and far...
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The Briefing

Anthropic’s IPO Marketing Meets Extinction Risk

By Martin Peers · Sep 9, 2026 5:01pm PDT
Are we sleepwalking our way into AI-caused extinction? It feels a little like that, given an Anthropic researcher’s X post on Tuesday night that there’s a greater than 10% chance that “AI could kill all humans” within the next decade! Despite that rather gruesome note, for tech executives posting on X today, it was business as usual. (See our... Are we sleepwalking our way into AI-caused extinction? It feels a little like that, given an...
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Why An Anthropic Researcher’s Terminator-Style Warning Caught Fire

By Amir Efrati and Rocket Drew · Sep 9, 2026 3:53pm PDT · 1 comment
An Anthropic safety researcher’s warning Tuesday that his company believes AI “could kill all humans” within a decade has reverberated throughout Silicon Valley, Wall Street and Washington, potentially complicating the Claude maker’s upcoming initial public offering and its efforts to repair ties with U.S. political leaders. As the comment... An Anthropic safety researcher’s warning Tuesday that his company believes AI “could kill all...
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Why Price Cuts May Rattle Anthropic's IPO Pitch
By Martin Peers · Sep 8, 2026 5:00pm PDT
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The Briefing

Why Price Cuts May Rattle Anthropic's IPO Pitch

By Martin Peers · Sep 8, 2026 5:00pm PDT
Anthropic’s IPO paperwork is expected to become public sometime soon. But it was OpenAI finance chief Sarah Friar who drew a standing-room-only crowd Tuesday at San Francisco’s Palace Hotel, as Goldman Sachs kicked off its annual Communacopia + Technology conference with a Q&A with Friar. In her talk, Friar made clear how important price has... Anthropic’s IPO paperwork is expected to become public sometime soon. But it was OpenAI finance...
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Sunday Insights

How Anthropic Clinched $517 Billion in Compute Deals in 11 Months

By Valida Pau · Sep 6, 2026 8:00am PDT · 1 comment
Anthropic in the last year has scrambled to line up cloud computing deals with SpaceX, Google and others to meet the skyrocketing demand for Claude Code and Cowork that took the company by surprise this year. As the AI powerhouse gears up for a possible record-setting initial public offering, potential investors are wondering: Will that compute... Anthropic in the last year has scrambled to line up cloud computing deals with SpaceX, Google and...
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Exclusive

Anthropic’s In-House Payments Tech Push Could Chip Away at Stripe

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Sep 4, 2026 8:30am PDT · 1 comment
Anthropic is looking to build more billing, fraud detection and other financial infrastructure in-house and evaluating which payments-related services it can build itself rather than relying on outside providers, recent job postings show. Fast-growing Anthropic is at the center of the AI boom, where soaring usage and complex token-based pricing... Anthropic is looking to build more billing, fraud detection and other financial infrastructure...
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Nvidia’s New Sales Chief, Anthropic’s Mega IPO—and 12 More Things That Matter in Tech This Fall

By The Information Staff · Sep 4, 2026 6:13am PDT
This summer wasn’t exactly uneventful in Silicon Valley: No stretch of time in the ever-changing AI age could possibly be described as such. But with everyone back at their desks, the next few months ahead seem absolutely chockablock with action—most notably, Anthropic’s IPO, with investor expectations high for the long-awaited offering.... This summer wasn’t exactly uneventful in Silicon Valley: No stretch of time in the ever-changing...
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Snowflake Results Show Enterprises’ Desire For Anthropic Buffer
By Laura Bratton · Sep 3, 2026 1:07pm PDT
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Applied AI

Snowflake Results Show Enterprises’ Desire For Anthropic Buffer

By Laura Bratton · Sep 3, 2026 1:07pm PDT
Snowflake’s strong quarterly report on Wednesday said a lot about what can go right for older software firms that sell AI tools on top of their existing products. While Anthropic, OpenAI and Cursor get the lion’s share of headlines about AI coding, for instance, Snowflake, whose primary business is selling data management software,... Snowflake’s strong quarterly report on Wednesday said a lot about what can go right for older...
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Dealmaker

What Anthropic's IPO Investors Want to Know

By Valida Pau and Cory Weinberg · Sep 3, 2026 10:00am PDT
We’re getting ready for Anthropic to make its initial public offering prospectus public sometime after Labor Day. Though the company’s private investors have had a window into its torrid growth and projections, this will be the first time public investors are getting a full financial picture of the Claude maker. Just how complete a picture... We’re getting ready for Anthropic to make its initial public offering prospectus public sometime...
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Anthropic Splits From Google, OpenAI Over State AI Safety Bill

By Leo Schwartz · Sep 3, 2026 6:00am PDT
Anthropic is at odds with other big tech firms over a Massachusetts Senate proposal requiring big AI developers to hire independent evaluators to assess catastrophic risks posed by their models every four months. The Massachusetts proposal could set a new standard for AI regulation, which state legislators across the country are pursuing... Anthropic is at odds with other big tech firms over a Massachusetts Senate proposal requiring big...
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Applied AI

Anthropic Customers’ Bills Are 80% Higher Than They Need to Be, Glean Says

By Kevin McLaughlin · Sep 1, 2026 3:06pm PDT
As AI search startup Glean moves into competition with rivals like Anthropic in automating white-collar tasks, its executives are zeroing in on two topics keeping corporate chief information officers awake at night: Token costs and data security.Glean last week shared internal evaluations showing its AI assistant is much cheaper to use than... As AI search startup Glean moves into competition with rivals like Anthropic in automating...