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Anthropic is the AI safety company behind Claude and Claude Code. Our Anthropic coverage follows the company's research publications, product launches, funding rounds, and the AWS and Google partnerships.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Pay Private Equity to Reach the Mid-Market Before IPO
OpenAI seeds a $10 billion joint venture with TPG, Bain and Brookfield while Anthropic strikes a $1.5 billion pact with Blackstone and Goldman Sachs.

Anthropic and OpenAI launch parallel joint ventures to chase enterprise AI deals
Anthropic's $1.5B vehicle with Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman lands hours before OpenAI's $10B Development Company surfaces.

Jack Clark: 60% chance AI builds its own successor by end of 2028
Anthropic co-founder lays out the benchmark trail — SWE-Bench from 2% to 93.9%, METR horizons from 30 seconds to 12 hours — and calls the takeoff.

Squirrel creator Derrick Downey Jr. vibe-codes DualShot Recorder to No. 1 on the App Store
DualShot Recorder hit the top of the paid charts in 12 hours, built largely with Claude by a creator who isn't a software developer.

Anthropic Opens Claude Security Beta With CrowdStrike, Palo Alto, Big Four On Board
The code-scanning tool launches as Anthropic leans on cybersecurity, the one federal lane still open to it after Pentagon setbacks.

Replit's Amjad Masad rules out a sale, picks a fight with Apple as ARR nears $1B
Masad says Replit went from $2.8M in 2024 revenue to a billion-dollar run rate, with 300% net retention and gross margins in the black.

Microsoft Makes Agent Mode the Default in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
Satya Nadella confirms agent mode is generally available across Copilot, with Anthropic's models now embedded inside Microsoft's core productivity apps.

Pentagon signs Nvidia, Microsoft, AWS to put AI on classified networks
The Defense Department adds four more vendors after the Anthropic dispute, deploying models inside IL6 and IL7 environments.

Pentagon awards classified AI contracts to OpenAI, Google, Nvidia — Anthropic shut out
The Defense Department signed seven AI vendors for classified use and labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk after a fight over autonomous weapons.

Legora hits $5.6B valuation as Nvidia joins legal AI fight against Harvey
NVentures led a $50M extension to Legora's $550M Series D after the Swedish startup crossed $100M ARR — closing the gap with Harvey's $11B mark.

OpenAI gates GPT-5.5 Cyber after mocking Anthropic for doing the same with Mythos
Sam Altman called Anthropic's Mythos rollout 'fear-based marketing.' Now OpenAI is shipping its own cyber tool only to vetted defenders.

Amazon Bets Graviton and Tranium on Anthropic to Crack Open the AI Chip Market
The cloud giant is using its Anthropic partnership to validate custom silicon, echoing Microsoft's Azure playbook with OpenAI.

Anthropic Hits $30B Run Rate, Surges Past OpenAI as Amazon Adds $5B
The Claude maker has scaled from $1bn to $30bn in annual run rate in 16 months, eclipsing OpenAI's $25bn while accepting fresh Amazon backing.

AWS Launches OpenAI Models on Bedrock as Microsoft Exclusivity Ends
OpenAI's frontier models and Codex agent platform arrive on Amazon Bedrock one day after the Microsoft Azure exclusivity deal lapses.

Goodfire ships Silico, an off-the-shelf tool for debugging LLMs from the inside
The San Francisco startup wants to drag model training out of alchemy and into engineering by exposing the neurons that drive behavior.

Reid Hoffman says doctors not using AI for second opinions border on malpractice
The LinkedIn cofounder, speaking at WIRED Health in London, argues frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic should sit beside every clinician.

Anthropic weighs $50B round at up to $900B, more than double February's mark
Preemptive bids land at $850B–$900B as run-rate revenue jumps from $9B to $30B in four months. A board decision is expected in May.

OpenAI Strikes Back With GPT-5.5 as Anthropic Hits $1tn Secondary Valuation
OpenAI's new model targets agentic coding work as Anthropic pulls ahead in enterprise and trades at a higher private-market valuation.

Microsoft says Copilot has crossed 20M paid seats with engagement matching Outlook
Satya Nadella told investors Copilot queries per user rose nearly 20% quarter over quarter, and Accenture just signed for 740,000 seats.

600 Google Staff Urge Pichai to Drop Pentagon AI Deal Anthropic Walked Away From
More than 600 employees, including senior DeepMind researchers, are pressing Google to refuse a classified Pentagon contract.

OpenAI CFO Breaks With Altman Over $660B Compute Bill and 2026 IPO Push
Sarah Fryer no longer reports directly to Sam Altman and has told colleagues OpenAI is not ready to go public next year.

Google opens its AI to the Pentagon on terms Anthropic refused
Google joins OpenAI and xAI in signing broad DoD access; 950 of its own employees signed an open letter asking it not to.

GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based billing as inference costs double
Starting June 1, Copilot subscribers get AI Credits matching their monthly fee — overages billed by the token at API rates up to $30 per million.

Anthropic plugs Claude into Adobe, Blender, Autodesk and Ableton
A new set of connectors lets Claude drive 50+ tools across Adobe Creative Cloud, plus Blender, Autodesk Fusion, Ableton Live and Splice.
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