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Visa Says Its AI ‘Harness’ Makes Anthropic Cheaper to Use For Cyber Defense

By Laura Bratton · Aug 27, 2026 1:31pm PDT

Anthropic’s AI is pricey, but customers are finding they can use it more efficiently by adding software known as a harness to control the way AI models operate.Visa in April developed a harness that reduces the cost of and time it takes for Anthropic’s Mythos AI to find and fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities in its codebases significantly, the... Anthropic’s AI is pricey, but customers are finding they can use it more efficiently by adding...

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Anthropic Considers Letting Shareholders Sell In IPO, Departing from SpaceX Playbook

By Cory Weinberg and Valida Pau · Aug 27, 2026 11:12am PDT

Anthropic has been working on a plan to let existing shareholders sell some stock in its blockbuster initial public offering while also considering longer-than-usual lockup periods for sales after it’s public, people familiar with the process said. Allowing secondary stock sales in the IPO would distinguish Anthropic from this year’s other big... Anthropic has been working on a plan to let existing shareholders sell some stock in its...

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AT&T is Using Open Source Models to Curb Anthropic Bills

By Aaron Holmes · Aug 20, 2026 11:55am PDT

Anthropic and OpenAI had better hope more companies don’t follow the example of AT&T.The telecommunications firm plans to keep its employees’ spending on Anthropic and OpenAI models flat in the coming years by using more open-source models such as Nvidia’s Nemotron, according to Mark Austin, an AT&T vice president. Anthropic and OpenAI had better hope more companies don’t follow the example of AT&T.The...

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Anthropic’s Enterprise AI Venture Buys Consultancy

By Julia Hornstein · Aug 20, 2026 6:00am PDT

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Anthropic’s Enterprise AI Venture Buys Consultancy

By Julia Hornstein · Aug 20, 2026 6:00am PDT

A joint venture established by Anthropic and Wall Street firms such as Blackstone has made its first acquisition since its July launch as it looks to boost the growth of Claude, Anthropic’s chatbot, among businesses. Anthropic’s venture, called Ode with Anthropic, plans to announce Thursday that it is buying an AI consultancy, Casper Studios,... A joint venture established by Anthropic and Wall Street firms such as Blackstone has made its...

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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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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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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...

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

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Aug 17, 2026 7:01am PDT

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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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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 · 4 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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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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OpenAI, Anthropic Data Demand Turns Startups’ Slack Threads Into Prized Assets

By Alix Coutures · Aug 13, 2026 6:00am PDT · 1 comment

Eight days after AI agent startup Warmly in late June agreed to be acquired by HubSpot, CEO Maximus Greenwald found an unusual email in his inbox. Mercor, a San Francisco startup that pays contractors to train AI models for labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, was offering to buy or license Warmly’s code base and records of its tasks and... Eight days after AI agent startup Warmly in late June agreed to be acquired by HubSpot, CEO...

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What the Anthropic IPO Could Mean for Shrimp Welfare and Other Obscure Causes

By Erin Woo · Aug 8, 2026 9:00am PDT · 1 comment

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What the Anthropic IPO Could Mean for Shrimp Welfare and Other Obscure Causes

By Erin Woo · Aug 8, 2026 9:00am PDT · 1 comment

The coming initial public offerings of AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI could spell a windfall for San Francisco real estate agents, private jet companies—and wild animals. As AI employees with fast-appreciating stock look to start cashing out, philanthropies are talking to potential donors and preparing for a possible influx of cash. And... The coming initial public offerings of AI giants Anthropic and OpenAI could spell a windfall for...

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Visiting Anthropic’s Favorite Atomic Author

By Cory Weinberg · Aug 8, 2026 8:01am PDT

Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Sequoia’s new leaders go all out on AI. • Why U.S. robotics startups are stuffing parts from China in their luggage.• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “What to Carry, What to Burn,” “The Secret Dinner” and “Arco”The West Seattle hillside home of Richard Rhodes, with... Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Sequoia’s new leaders go all out on...

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How Dario Amodei Spread Anthropic’s Religion and Stirred Up Silicon Valley

By Cory Weinberg, Stephanie Palazzolo and Amir Efrati · Aug 6, 2026 6:00am PDT · 9 comments

An Anthropic meeting with investors and advisers earlier this year landed amid a historic run of corporate success. But public perception of AI was abysmal. One director suggested Anthropic use its new clout to go on a charm offensive like those Microsoft, Facebook and other tech giants engaged in during their boom years, to emphasize AI’s... An Anthropic meeting with investors and advisers earlier this year landed amid a historic run of...

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How Meta Plans to Close the Gap with Anthropic and OpenAI in Coding

By Jyoti Mann · Aug 5, 2026 7:00am PDT

As Meta Platforms races to catch up with Anthropic and OpenAI, it’s asking thousands of engineers to use its in-house AI coding agent, MetaCode, in their day-to-day work in an effort to improve the coding capabilities of its AI models.Maher Saba, vice president of Meta’s Applied AI Engineering organization, last month asked engineers across the... As Meta Platforms races to catch up with Anthropic and OpenAI, it’s asking thousands of engineers...

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How Firms Like Coinbase Are Building Coding Agents to Complement Anthropic's Claude Code

By Laura Bratton · Aug 4, 2026 10:03am PDT

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How Firms Like Coinbase Are Building Coding Agents to Complement Anthropic's Claude Code

By Laura Bratton · Aug 4, 2026 10:03am PDT

Coinbase and some other tech-savvy firms such as Shopify and Ramp have built their own AI coding agents for internal use, giving their employees an alternative to pricey options from firms like Anthropic and OpenAI.Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange, built an AI coding agent called Forge, which launched to all of its engineers in April of... Coinbase and some other tech-savvy firms such as Shopify and Ramp have built their own AI coding...