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Anthropic Expects Its IPO to Match or Exceed SpaceX's $75 Billion Record Raise

Anthropic expects its initial public offering to match or beat SpaceX's record $75 billion raise, Bloomberg reported, and could file publicly by the end of August after posting $11.5 billion in second-quarter revenue.

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Anthropic Builds In-House Custom Silicon Team to Design Chips for Claude

Anthropic confirmed on August 5 that it is assembling a custom silicon team to design its own AI chips, posting chip-design roles at $320,000 to $485,000 while keeping its AWS, Google, Nvidia and AMD hardware.

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Anthropic Signs $10 Billion, Six-Year Compute Deal With Volta for a Norway Data Center

Anthropic signed a six-year, $10 billion cloud compute agreement with startup Volta for 121 IT megawatts at Bitdeer's Tydal campus in Norway. Volta's own 16-year lease from Bitdeer runs about $4.7 billion and is to be backed by $1.3 billion in letters of credit.

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Nvidia's Open Secure AI Alliance Launches Without OpenAI, Google or Anthropic

Nvidia's new coalition argues cyber defenders need open-weight models they can run themselves, after a Hugging Face breach that commercial AI tools refused to analyze. Its 74-partner roster includes Microsoft, IBM and Mistral, but not OpenAI, Google or Anthropic.

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Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview Finds New Weaknesses in HAWK and AES Ciphers

Anthropic disclosed that its unreleased research model found a faster attack on the post-quantum candidate HAWK, roughly halving its effective security, and a much faster attack on a reduced-round AES-128 variant — with no impact on production systems, the company says.

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Anthropic Launches Claude Opus 5 as New Default Model on Claude Max

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 on July 24, 2026, pricing it at $5 and $25 per million tokens and making it the default model on Claude Max, the strongest available on Claude Pro.

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AMD Launches Instinct MI400 GPUs and Helios AI Racks, Signs 2GW Anthropic Deal

At Advancing AI 2026, AMD launched its Instinct MI400 Series GPUs, EPYC CPUs, and Helios racks, and struck a deal to deploy up to 2 gigawatts of compute for Anthropic backed by an equity investment of up to $5 billion.

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Anthropic Leads Future of Life Institute AI Safety Index With a C+

The Future of Life Institute's Summer 2026 AI Safety Index gave Anthropic the top grade, a C+, with OpenAI and Google DeepMind at C and xAI, DeepSeek, and Mistral failing. No company earned an A or B.

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Alibaba Bans Employees From Using Anthropic's Claude Code

Alibaba banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code from July 10 after code that detects China-based users surfaced; Anthropic calls it anti-distillation protection, and staff are told to use Qoder.

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Anthropic in Talks With Samsung to Develop a Custom AI Chip

Anthropic is in early talks with Samsung to manufacture a custom AI chip, The Information reported July 2 — a hedge against its heavy reliance on Nvidia even as Google and Amazon silicon stays central.

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Anthropic Launches Claude Science, an AI Workbench for Researchers

Anthropic launched Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists, in beta on June 30, pairing a coordinating agent with 60-plus curated skills across genomics, proteomics and more, plus a reviewer agent that checks citations and calculations.

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Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5 as Default Model for Free and Pro Users

Anthropic launched Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30 as the default model for Free and Pro users, priced at an introductory $2 per million input and $10 output tokens, with performance it says approaches Opus 4.8.