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Anthropic in Talks With Samsung to Manufacture Custom AI Chip

By Qianer Liu · Jul 2, 2026 6:50am PDT · 1 comment
Anthropic has begun early-stage work on its own AI chip and held talks with Samsung Electronics as a potential manufacturing partner, following the lead of rival OpenAI in trying to get more control over the costly computing systems behind its models, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project. If the Claude maker goes ahead... Anthropic has begun early-stage work on its own AI chip and held talks with Samsung Electronics...
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Anthropic Preps Claude Agent in Microsoft Teams

By Laura Bratton, Aaron Holmes and Amir Efrati · Jun 30, 2026 11:22am PDT
Salesforce and Microsoft may be worried about threats posed by AI upstarts like Anthropic to their core enterprise apps, but they’re taking a conciliatory approach.Even though the two incumbents sell proprietary AI agents that can be used inside their Slack and Teams messaging apps, for instance, they’ve decided the apps ought to be a “platform”... Salesforce and Microsoft may be worried about threats posed by AI upstarts like Anthropic to...
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Amazon Could Pay More for Anthropic Technology Under New Deal

By Catherine Perloff · Jun 29, 2026 9:00am PDT
As Anthropic grows to become a leading AI model used by enterprises, it’s been flexing its power with customers—including one of its most important early backers, Amazon. Earlier this year, Anthropic renegotiated an aspect of its partnership with Amazon, making it more expensive for the cloud and e-commerce giant to use Anthropic models in... As Anthropic grows to become a leading AI model used by enterprises, it’s been flexing its power...
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Salesforce Employees Worry Over Anthropic’s Invasion of Slack
By Laura Bratton · Jun 27, 2026 7:01am PDT · 1 comment
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Salesforce Employees Worry Over Anthropic’s Invasion of Slack

By Laura Bratton · Jun 27, 2026 7:01am PDT · 1 comment
When Anthropic on Tuesday launched a high-profile AI product for businesses that use Slack, some employees at Salesforce, which owns Slack, were confused. In social media posts, Salesforce promoted Anthropic’s new product, Claude Tag, which works as a kind of AI teammate that lives inside group Slack chats. It sees and remembers everything that’... When Anthropic on Tuesday launched a high-profile AI product for businesses that use Slack, some...
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Anthropic’s Mythos Spooked DeepSeek, Prompting Its $7.4 Billion Fundraising

By Jing Yang, Qianer Liu and Juro Osawa · Jun 26, 2026 6:00am PDT · 8 comments
Up until two months ago, DeepSeek, the three-year-old Chinese AI lab, was an anomaly in the increasingly costly global AI battle. It had relied entirely on CEO Liang Wenfeng’s personal wealth and never raised outside money. That changed in the middle of this month, when DeepSeek completed a $7.4 billion fundraising that valued the startup at... Up until two months ago, DeepSeek, the three-year-old Chinese AI lab, was an anomaly in the...
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Anthropic Customers Find Errant Charges, Auditing Startup Says

By Laura Bratton · Jun 25, 2026 12:31pm PDT
Some customers may be paying more for Anthropic and OpenAI products than they should be due to billing inaccuracies, according to data from Vaudit, which sells an AI bill-auditing tool.Between March and June, Vaudit audited bills sent to 60 companies totaling $34 million, mostly for usage of Anthropic’s Claude Code, and found about $1.7 million... Some customers may be paying more for Anthropic and OpenAI products than they should be due to...
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Google Revamps New AI Coding Strike Team Amid Struggle to Catch Up With Anthropic

By Erin Woo · Jun 25, 2026 6:00am PDT · 2 comments
Google is reorganizing its recently launched strike team working on AI coding tools to try to catch up with Anthropic in the most lucrative AI applications, according to people familiar with the changes. The goal is for the months-old strike team to change the approach to training Google’s AI models to improve their abilities in both coding... Google is reorganizing its recently launched strike team working on AI coding tools to try to...
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How AI Customers Are Lowering Their Anthropic and OpenAI Bills
By Laura Bratton and Catherine Perloff · Jun 23, 2026 6:00am PDT
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How AI Customers Are Lowering Their Anthropic and OpenAI Bills

By Laura Bratton and Catherine Perloff · Jun 23, 2026 6:00am PDT
As prices for Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s flagship products soar, some large customers are using cheaper AI models from those companies’ menus as well as from other providers. Ensemble Health Partners, a provider of software for hospitals that plans to spend up to $100 million on AI this year, says it’s had success switching to an OpenAI model that... As prices for Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s flagship products soar, some large customers are using...
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SpaceX’s 74-Day IPO Sets Pace for OpenAI, Anthropic

By Cory Weinberg · Jun 21, 2026 8:00am PDT · 2 comments
SpaceX’s strong first week of trading made one thing clear: Racing through its IPO at warp speed cost it nothing. The company went from initial confidential filing to listing in just 74 days, much faster than other tech IPOs in recent years, including those of CoreWeave, Figma and Airbnb, an analysis of securities filings shows. Initial public... SpaceX’s strong first week of trading made one thing clear: Racing through its IPO at warp speed...
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Google and Microsoft Team Up to Beat Back Anthropic and OpenAI

By Amir Efrati, Aaron Holmes and Catherine Perloff · Jun 18, 2026 10:30am PDT
When a group of tech companies announce an agreement to support an AI backend-software protocol, we don’t blame corporate IT executives for not paying attention. It sounds quite boring.But one such announcement on Wednesday from Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, Snowflake, ServiceNow and others is worth paying attention to. It demonstrates one way... When a group of tech companies announce an agreement to support an AI backend-software protocol,...
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OpenAI and Anthropic Tap Salesforce Talent

By Kevin McLaughlin and Laura Bratton · Jun 17, 2026 6:01am PDT
As OpenAI and Anthropic build up their teams of enterprise salespeople, they’ve both been hiring from one of the deepest pools of enterprise software talent anywhere: Salesforce. More than 45 Salesforce employees have joined Anthropic since the start of this year, and close to 40 have joined OpenAI, largely in sales and marketing roles,... As OpenAI and Anthropic build up their teams of enterprise salespeople, they’ve both been hiring...
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Anthropic Ban Stirs Concerns at OpenAI and Beyond of Crackdown on Foreign AI Talent
By Leo Schwartz, Stephanie Palazzolo and Erin Woo · Jun 16, 2026 2:07pm PDT · 1 comment
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Anthropic Ban Stirs Concerns at OpenAI and Beyond of Crackdown on Foreign AI Talent

By Leo Schwartz, Stephanie Palazzolo and Erin Woo · Jun 16, 2026 2:07pm PDT · 1 comment
The U.S. government’s latest battle with Anthropic has revived long-simmering concerns throughout the AI industry that the White House has placed a bullseye on their reliance on foreign AI talent. The Trump administration appears to have targeted only Anthropic so far, warning the company on Friday in a letter from Commerce Secretary Howard... The U.S. government’s latest battle with Anthropic has revived long-simmering concerns throughout...