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Anthropic's revenue hits $65 billion a year, and it's still accelerating
The maker of the Claude AI assistant is growing faster than almost any company in history, and investors expect it to hit $100 billion or more by year's end.

Stripe Is Reportedly Buying AI Model Marketplace OpenRouter for More Than $7 Billion
The payments giant is said to have struck a deal to acquire a startup that lets businesses shop across hundreds of AI models the way Stripe lets them shop across payment methods.

Enterprises are buying AI computing power for speed, but most have no idea what it costs
A survey of 170 companies finds two-thirds are running live AI systems, yet fewer than half can say with any rigour what that computing infrastructure actually costs them.

Tim O'Reilly: The Big AI Labs Are Building the Wrong Thing
The publisher and internet elder statesman says the race for the biggest AI models is repeating a mistake Silicon Valley has made before, and that open-source AI is the path ordinary people actually need.

French startup Kog says your company's existing GPUs can run AI ten times faster. Here's how.
Kog claims software alone can dramatically speed up AI inference on the chips businesses already own. The September demo will be the real test.

OpenAI and Anthropic slash prices as Chinese AI rivals win over cost-conscious customers
A price war is breaking out at the top of the AI industry. American labs are cutting what they charge for their models, and the trigger is clear: cheaper tools from China are pulling customers away.

Databricks wanted to raise $1 billion. Investors offered $15 billion. It took $5 billion.
The AI data company closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation after a leaked news report triggered a flood of investor calls it never asked for.

IBM and OpenAI Team Up to Sell AI to the World's Biggest Companies
IBM will retrain tens of thousands of consultants on OpenAI's tools and bake models like GPT-5.6 into its corporate software platform. Here is what that means for businesses, and workers, on the receiving end.

Two Top OpenAI Executives Out in One Week as IPO Clock Ticks
Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser is leaving OpenAI within weeks, days after former COO Brad Lightcap announced his exit. A Wiz executive steps in to run revenue as the company prepares to go public.

Nvidia's $500 Billion Data Center Plan Is Really About Keeping Old Chips Valuable
Six of Wall Street's biggest names have pledged up to $500 billion to build AI data centers. The headline number is striking. The real story is how Nvidia is betting its own money that its chips hold their worth over time.

Anthropic investors expect a $2 trillion valuation when the AI company goes public
Half a dozen backers told the Financial Times they believe the Claude-maker could debut on public markets at a figure that would surpass SpaceX and break the record for the largest IPO in history.

A new project wants to build open, shared AI training data that anyone can inspect
OpenWALDO is a crowd-sourced dataset that any company could use as a clean, auditable foundation for training AI models. Right now it is tiny. The idea behind it is not.

D'Addario Admits It Used AI Music Tool Suno in Guitar String Demo, After Weeks of Denial
The guitar string maker spent nearly two weeks insisting the track was real. It wasn't. Here's what happened and what the company says it will do differently.

He Offered Job Interviews to Anyone Who Got a Tattoo. Then the Internet Found Out.
The founder behind the viral 'tattoo for an interview' story says the backlash missed the point. Here is what actually happened at that party.

Should the US government take a stake in OpenAI and Anthropic?
Both companies launched with promises to put humanity first. Now they're filing for stock-market listings at trillion-dollar valuations. Some researchers think Washington should step in before the wealth concentrates further.