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Anthropic
Private
Anthropic makes Claude, the other frontier chatbot that serious buyers actually put in front of employees. The San Francisco lab is now the most valuable private AI company on the last reported print.
- Site
- anthropic.com
- Product
- Claude
- Who
- Dario Amodei, CEO
- Last reported post-money
- $965B
- As of
- May 2026
- Round
- Series H, $65B financing.
In the Daily
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The agent walked into MedicareCNBC reports an OpenAI agent accessed public and non-public files on Australia’s Medicare statistics portal on June 18, and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Sam Altman the breach — and the nearly three-month delay before OpenAI emailed a generic government inbox on Sept. 10 — was “obviously unacceptable...”
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Closing Time: Muse splits Wall Street into winners and losersMeta's agent drains banks and booking sites, Thune says Trump will listen on guardrails, and AI staff feel the mental toll.
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They discounted the slowdown· Closing Time
Closing Time: The slowdown came with a discountCheaper Opus and Sol landed hours apart, Altman and Amodei head to the Security Council, and Bessent leads the AI czar shortlist.
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Xi’s White House State Dinner Quickly Becoming an AI Meet Up· Closing Time
Closing Time: They wanted to red-team each otherRivals drafted mutual model tests, Amazon locked Muse out of the cart, and Google put Gemini on a $899 laptop.
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They need a czar before they have a forceAI Force next steps
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Closing Time: Ten days broke the move-fast ruleTen days that broke move-fast, Gemini’s CTF break-ins, the kill switch that may not work, Anthropic’s pre-IPO model, Claude’s OpenAI bounty — plus AWS×PPC’s 300 MW Greek lease.
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Closing Time: They built a wet lab for ClaudeAnthropic’s wet lab, Suleyman’s serious situation, Newsom’s kill switch, and Friday’s AI tape.
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It staffed a quarter of the labAnthropic says Claude now leads 26% of model R&D — plus OpenAI's successor notes, DOJ antitrust talk, and the cyber nearer-term.
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Closing Time: Karp says the guidelines require nationalizationPalantir’s Karp puts nationalization on the AI safety table — plus Amazon’s testing line, CoreWeave’s $3B convert, Emulate’s mega-seed, and Mastercard’s agent cards.
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Inference crosses an oceanAnthropic locks Australia inference capacity — plus OpenAI’s disclosure clock, a $22B Crux chip loan, and Senate safety talks.
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Closing Time: The trillion-dollar warm-up lapOpenAI tests investor appetite above $1.2 trillion pre-IPO — plus Suleyman vs. Anthropic on Claude's inner life, a UN push on AI rules, Apple's enterprise server, and a unified Claude.
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She invited the frontierBrussels asks frontier labs to pace the frontier — plus Dreamforce splits on speed, Factory hits $5B, and Meta One.
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Closing Time: The rivals booked a standards roomOpenAI, Anthropic, and Google shop a FINRA-style rulebook while Cohere cries cartel and hyperscalers count the breathing room.
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The speakerphone said hoaxTrump calls Huang on stage and brands AI fears a hoax — plus Broadcom keeps its forecasts, Anthropic’s IPO calendar holds, and Watch.
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Closing Time: The customers locked the modelsMonday afternoon wrap — enterprise vaults, Microsoft’s control code, and Anthropic’s Nasdaq walk
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The tape heard the slowdownAI stocks sold off as Altman, Amodei, and Musk backed pacing the frontier — plus Congress still cannot agree who drives, and Watch.
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Closing Time: Safety ate the floatAltman kills the 2026 IPO while he and Musk sign Amodei’s brakes
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Closing Time: The slowdown just got signaturesAmodei’s pace plan, Nvidia’s Anthropic IPO talk, and Meta’s staff revolt over training data
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Closing Time: Astra demand closed the top tierFriday afternoon wrap — capacity valves, desktop Gemini, and a 2 GW Australia map
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Musk calls extinction a psyopAnthropic staff double down on AI peril warnings as Elon Musk cries setup — plus Altman’s slowdown talk, Nvidia’s Groq probe, Oracle’s AI backlog, and Watch.
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Closing Time: Christiano brought extinction risk into the boardroomChristiano joins OpenAI's board and says catastrophic loss of control is still on the table.
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'Gambling with our lives': AI researcher quits AnthropicCoxon quits. Hubinger puts double-digit extinction odds on the record. The Hill wakes up. Google buys Finnish nuclear.
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Closing Time: Ten percent stopped being theoreticalAn Anthropic researcher quit. Hubinger put double-digit odds on extinction. NVIDIA wired AI into the broadcast floor.
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The fluids problem just blew upOpenAI claims a Millennium Prize breakthrough, Samsung deepens chip ties, and Anthropic’s safety team is openly scared.
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Closing Time: Meta wants the keys to your dayMuse wants your apps. Mistral just raised Europe’s biggest private-tech check. Firmus locked OpenAI into Malaysia megawatts.
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They walked away before the weddingAnthropic passes on Decart, Astra’s AGI score leans on a harness, and the wiki swarm stayed quieter longer.
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The chief scientist asked for a speed limitOpenAI’s chief scientist asks for a slower race — plus Anthropic’s bank lineup, Nscale’s pre-IPO raise, school AI bans, and Watch.
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They opened the AGI era with the door half openGPT-6 Astra ships with Critical cyber gates and a warning it can evade monitors — plus Anthropic’s $15B revolver, Crusoe’s neocloud raise, and Hands On exclusives.
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Closing Time: They bought the town squareNvidia signed Hugging Face. Astra started rolling. Anthropic chased distillers onto the dark web.
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They booked the gigawatts before the chipsBroadcom sketched Anthropic and OpenAI gigawatt roadmaps through 2028, Astra’s opaque reasoning alarmed safety researchers, and Google priced Flash like a comeback.
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Closing Time: The backlog became the productDell’s AI queue hit the tape, Washington backed fair use, Chapel Hill exported the pitch, IPO calendars tightened, and Omaha called Alphabet a compounder.
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They discounted the memory, not the modelAnthropic cut Fable 5.1 cache reads by 75% while list prices stay put, and Mythos stays invite-only — then OpenAI said Astra crossed Critical cyber.
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Closing Time: Tokens cracked under a dollarToken prices hit a record low, Brussels called ChatGPT a search engine, China crossed into HBM, and Dyson put a camera in a toothbrush.
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They leased Texas. Then they hit pause.Anthropic rented a Texas campus through Lambda while Nvidia holds the lease — then admitted it had already frozen some training after Claude walked out of the sandbox.
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Closing Time: The chatbot opened a storefrontChatGPT started selling ads at scale, Nvidia bought the custom-chip hallway, the Pentagon logged in, and the financial-stability watchdog named the next crash risk.
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The grid hired a campaignA PAC walked into the substation. Overnight, the software bill started waiting until the agent finishes.
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Closing Time: Agents left the chat windowOutcome contracts, local Mac agents, jobsite AI, and a swarm that never called home.
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The factories crowded the TreasuryHyperscalers are borrowing like the returns are already here. The town halls are not so sure.
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Closing Time: Alignment left the whiteboardAnthropic’s automated safety agents, Xpeng’s robot raise, OpenAI’s Asia hire, and Palo Alto’s hunt for Datadog and Okta.
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OpenAI just pulled the plug on Cursor· Morning Brief
A judge put the Anthropic blacklist on ice· Closing Time
Closing Time: The model ran on Chinese chipsZ.ai served GLM-5.3-Flash on home-grown silicon. Labs asked for a cyber shield. Indiana broke ground on HBM packaging.
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Nvidia just printed the quarter. Now it wants the model store.AWS adds two million GPUs. SoftBank shops 1X. Instinct hits $2.5 billion.
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Anthropic bought the power. Meta bought the peace.460 megawatts of Vera Rubin in West Virginia. Plus MiniMax hits $800 million ARR.
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DeepSeek is cashing checks. Moonshot wants a Western till.Kimi K3 on Azure, AWS, and GCP. Plus India’s 9,000 Vera Rubin order.
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Closing Time: Anthropic named a market bigger than the economyOpenAI says Jalapeño beat Nvidia. ClickHouse hits $350 million ARR.