Anthropic and Wall Street are building a $1.5bn pipeline into private equity
Anthropic and Wall Street are building a $1.5bn pipeline into private equity

A joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs, and General Atlantic will sell Claude into the buyout firms’ portfolio companies. OpenAI’s DeployCo arrived first; this one is bigger. There is a kind of business school question t…

Coatue has a plan to buy up land for data centers, possibly for Anthropic

Coatue, one of the biggest names in venture capital, has a new venture that is reportedly buying land near large power sources.

Anthropic’s Mythos is moving between governments faster than regulators can agree on what to do with it
Anthropic’s Mythos is moving between governments faster than regulators can agree on what to do with it

Anthropic’s most controversial product has spent its first three weeks moving between state actors who cannot agree on whether it is theirs to use, theirs to block, or someone else’s problem entirely. On Wednesday morning, an unnamed Trump administrati…

Anthropic potential $900B+ valuation round could happen within two weeks

Anthropic is asking investors to submit allocations for the AI company’s latest fundraise within the next 48 hours, according to sources familiar with the matter.

After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber, too

OpenAI will begin rolling out it cybersecurity testing tool, GPT-5.5 Cyber only “to critical cyber defenders” at first.

Europe’s finance ministers are about to discuss an AI model none of them can access
Europe’s finance ministers are about to discuss an AI model none of them can access

Euro-area finance ministers will discuss Anthropic’s Mythos AI model with banking supervisors on Monday, according to a senior EU official. The technology that will be on the agenda is one that no government in the European Union has access to, built b…

Elon Musk confirms xAI used OpenAI’s models to train Grok
Elon Musk confirms xAI used OpenAI’s models to train Grok

In a federal courtroom in California on Thursday, Elon Musk testified that his own AI startup, xAI, has used OpenAI’s models to improve its own. The matter at question is model distillation, a common industry practice by which one larger AI model acts as a “teacher” of sorts to pass on knowledge to a smaller […]

Anthropic is considering a funding round that would value it at over $900 billion
Anthropic is considering a funding round that would value it at over $900 billion

The company is entertaining offers for approximately $50 billion at a valuation of $850–$900 billion, with a board decision expected in May and a potential IPO as early as October 2026. Anthropic has begun weighing a fresh funding round at a valuation …

White House opposes Anthropic’s plan to expand Mythos access to 70 companies, citing compute and security concerns
White House opposes Anthropic’s plan to expand Mythos access to 70 companies, citing compute and security concerns

The Trump administration has told Anthropic it disagrees with a controlled rollout that would bring its dangerous cyberattack-capable AI to roughly 120 organisations in total, even as the White House simultaneously explores an executive order to bring …

Sources: Anthropic could raise a new $50B round at a valuation of $900B

The maker of Claude has received multiple pre-emptive offers at valuations in the $850 billion to $900 billion range, according to sources familiar with the matter.