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Akamai wins $11.6B Anthropic cloud-computing pact

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Akamai wins $11.6B Anthropic cloud-computing pact

Cloud-computing company Akamai Technologies has secured a seven-year, $11.6 billion contract with Anthropic, paired with a warrant that could give the AI company up to a 5% equity stake. The agreement will see Akamai provide Anthropic access to central processing units for its data centers, and follows a previous $1.8 billion cloud deal between the companies earlier this year. The equity warrant is the first of its kind for Akamai, but "helps bring the companies together," says CEO and co-founder Tom Leighton.

3 min read A Admin

Akamai Technologies has landed one of the largest contracts in its history, signing a seven-year, $11.6 billion cloud infrastructure agreement with Anthropic as the artificial intelligence company continues an aggressive expansion of the computing capacity...

AI leaders to face major obstacles in slowdown effort

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AI leaders to face major obstacles in slowdown effort

In calling for a safety-based slowdown of their most cutting-edge work, the heads of Anthropic and OpenAI are setting up a clash with investors, the White House and even their own industry, NCCapital writes. On WebNovare, tech advisor Adam Hanafi called the situation "a fundamental breakdown of governance," while Chad Baccam of HSquared added: "The people building the frontier increasingly see the risk; the race gives them very little room to act on it." Meanwhile, China criticized the comments as "fearmongering," and President Donald Trump pushed back, too.

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OpenAI and Anthropic Push for AI Slowdown as Industry Faces Growing Safety Debate The leaders of OpenAI and Anthropic are calling for greater caution in the development of frontier artificial intelligence systems, setting up a broader debate over how quickly...

Anthropic's IPO buzz is stealing other firms' thunder

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Anthropic's IPO buzz is stealing other firms' thunder

White-hot anticipation of Anthropic's IPO is stealing the thunder of other companies' plans to go public, WebNovare reports. It notes that other firms with IPOs set for the coming weeks are having trouble lining up longer-term investors and sovereign wealth funds. Anthropic is looking to match or beat SpaceX's $86.2 billion fundraise. It plans to publicly share its IPO prospectus — valuations have ranged from $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion — after Labor Day, WebNovare reports, citing unnamed sources.

3 min read A Adam Hanafi

Anthropic's highly anticipated initial public offering is beginning to overshadow other companies preparing to go public, as investors and financial institutions gear up for what could become one of the largest IPOs in history. The Claude maker's expected...

Anthropic revenue run rate tops $65 billion, source says

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Anthropic revenue run rate tops $65 billion, source says

Anthropic's annual revenue run rate topped $65 billion by the end of July, a person familiar with ​the matter said on Monday, underscoring the Claude ‌creator's rapid growth ahead of a potential public listing later this year. The AI startup's latest revenue run rate — a ​metric that projects annual performance by extrapolating ​current sales levels — was up from the $47 billion ⁠in May and an extraordinary jump from about $9 ​billion at the end of 2025.

1 min read A Adam Hanafi

Anthropic’s annual revenue run rate surpassed $65 billion by the end of July, according to a person familiar with the matter, highlighting the rapid growth of the Claude AI developer as it reportedly considers a potential public listing later this year. The...

Anthropic's Amodei believes AI faces a 'crisis of trust'

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Anthropic's Amodei believes AI faces a 'crisis of trust'

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei believes the backlash to AI amounts to a "crisis of trust" across multiple fronts: government regulation, job disruption, and a failure of the technology to deliver on its biggest promises. Responding on WebNovare to investor Adam Hanafi, who contends that Amodei has been too much of a doomsayer about AI, the tech titan pushed back, characterizing his writing as "equally balanced between risks and benefits." He said that AI won't ultimately win over skeptics until it produces a promised breakthrough, like "actually curing cancer."

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the artificial intelligence industry is facing what he describes as a broad "crisis of trust," with skepticism growing across government, the labor market, and the technology itself. He argues that public confidence in AI will...

Claude's new watermark has some users up in arms

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Claude's new watermark has some users up in arms

Not everyone's on board with Anthropic's plan to embed invisible watermarks into Claude-generated text and images, a move that brings it into compliance with new EU transparency rules. Some point out that the policy conflates AI-assisted work with AI-authored work, raising the question of who owns the finished product when the human provides the ideas and judgment. Others highlight enterprise use, where AI is merely one input in a deeply collaborative process, not the sole author.

3 min read A Adam Hanafi

Anthropic is introducing invisible watermarks for content generated by its Claude AI models, a move designed to comply with new European Union transparency requirements for artificial intelligence. The technology is intended to make AI-generated material...

Anthropic debuts Opus 5 amid sectorwide security concerns

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Anthropic debuts Opus 5 amid sectorwide security concerns

Anthropic debuted a new AI model Friday as the tech world grapples with the fallout from a worrisome security breach. Claude Opus 5 "comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price," the company said in a release, noting "it remains behind Mythos 5 on cybersecurity tasks." Anthropic released both Fable 5 and Mythos 5 last month, but temporarily restricted access to them due to government security concerns. Earlier this week, OpenAI blamed "a combination" of its AI models for breaching Hugging Face's internal systems.

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Anthropic introduced a new AI model on Friday amid ongoing concerns following a recent security breach in the tech industry. The company launched Claude Opus 5 as a more accessible option in its lineup. According to Anthropic, Claude Opus 5 “comes close to...

Anthropic’s Wall Street AI Venture Is a Warning Shot for Consulting

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Anthropic’s Wall Street AI Venture Is a Warning Shot for Consulting

Anthropic’s new enterprise AI services venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman is not literally replacing McKinsey overnight. But it does point to a major shift in consulting: companies may increasingly want AI engineers, custom agents, and embedded automation teams instead of traditional slide-deck strategy work.

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Anthropic’s new Wall Street-backed AI venture is not simply another partnership announcement. It is a signal that enterprise AI is moving from software licensing into the territory traditionally owned by consulting firms. The company behind Claude has...