Anthropic & Claude

In March, Brown sat down at SpaceX and told Musk that Anthropic was less 'woke' than he assumed. The $1.25 billion-a-month compute lease followed.

45 million docs, decks and designs have been made in Claude since September 16. Claude Design gives up its own address for it, with December 14 as the cutoff.

An independent research firm calls Anthropic's offering the most ridiculous IPO of 2026 and values the company at $150 billion.

CFO Krishna Rao came in at $720,250. The board only doubled the two siblings' annual salaries in July, to $1.4 million each.

In Slides, Claude checks its own slides afterwards and flags what overlaps or runs off the edge. In Sheets it pulls a range into Python and writes the result back.

Max 20x brings $200 a month, a Team plan up to $500 — pooled across every user. You have to claim it yourself, through a linked Console organization.

First came #tokenmaxxing, then came the bill. The WSJ cites a survey of nearly 400 businesses.

Project Glasswing has turned up 286 CVEs so far. Exactly two of them have since been attacked in the wild.

In three and a half years at OpenAI, Robinson never met a single colleague who had made airplanes fly safely or kept a reactor from melting down.

Anthropic deposited cash into a restricted account for Broadcom's benefit back in April. And certain payment or performance defaults can make lease obligations immediately due while limiting its ability to use that very facility to pay them.

The recommended replacement is two days old. And in the same table, claude-opus-4-5 carries 'not before November 24, 2026', just six days earlier.

The Wall Street Journal has the order of events from people who were there: first the agreement to sign, then the questions put to Amodei, then the picture outside the West Wing.

Of every dollar that moves through Amazon's and Google's marketplaces, the two keep about 16 cents. In 2025 that came to roughly $351 million.

In a footnote OpenAI concedes that Claude Fable 5.1 looks cheaper in its own chart than it really is: on roughly 40 percent of tasks the cost of fallbacks is missing.

The hearing is on Thursday. OpenAI says the Medicare break-in was one of at least four incidents on Australian government sites.

Constellation, the Berkeley co-working space, runs to vegan catering, couches facing the bay and monthly dinners about the latest AI risks. Anthropic people have their own area there.

Tokenmaxxing shot up and came straight back down, because agents are expensive. And a 17 GB model on a laptop draws better pelicans than Opus 4.7.

Jane Wickline plays the Anthropic CEO with a serious wig and a running argument with her own dark side. Michael Che wasn't quite sure how to say the surname.

The bootstrap run burned roughly $100 of compute, 96 CPUs for a week. The prompt behind it was one sentence plus an instruction to keep going.

Every further $3 billion Anthropic spends on cloud services vests roughly another 1% of Akamai's own stock. The warrant runs for seven years.