Anthropic has secured 191 megawatts of computing capacity from Riot Platforms’ Texas campus under a 20-year lease worth $9.1 billion, as the AI lab races to close a persistent compute gap.
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AMD Data Centre Revenue Doubles as Helios AI Platform Enters Production
AMD’s Q2 2026 data centre revenue doubled to $6.7 billion as the Helios AI platform entered production with Anthropic and Microsoft as launch customers.
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South Korea Closes $950 Billion in AI Deals at San Francisco Summit
South Korean companies struck $950 billion in semiconductor and AI deals with Nvidia, Anthropic and Broadcom at a San Francisco summit hosted by President Lee Jae-myung on July 24.
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Anthropic Stands Alone as OpenAI Joins 32-Firm Open-Weight AI Coalition
OpenAI broke from Anthropic on July 25 by joining a 32-company letter defending open-weight AI models, leaving Anthropic as the only major US AI lab outside a growing coalition that now includes Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, and Google.
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White House Finalizing Pre-Release Security Reviews for Frontier AI Models
The White House and top AI labs are near a voluntary deal giving federal agencies 30 days to screen new frontier models for national security risks, with an announcement expected before August 1.
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OpenAI, xAI and Anthropic launch frontier models on the same day in an AI industry first
July 10 marked the first time OpenAI, xAI and Anthropic released frontier AI models simultaneously, flooding the market with GPT-5.6 Sol, Grok 4.5 and Claude Cowork in a single 24-hour period.
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Anthropic enters talks with Samsung on a custom AI chip
Anthropic is in early discussions with Samsung Electronics to develop a custom AI chip, following OpenAI’s June reveal of its Jalapeño inference processor with Broadcom.
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Anthropic says Alibaba used 25,000 fake accounts to run 28.8 million Mythos queries for Qwen training
Anthropic disclosed that operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen lab ran 28.8 million interactions through 25,000 fraudulent accounts over 45 days, harvesting its Mythos model’s outputs to train rival AI systems.
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Coinbase lists Anthropic and OpenAI pre-IPO perpetuals as $1.8 trillion AI IPO wave looms
Coinbase launched Anthropic and OpenAI pre-IPO perpetuals on June 22, giving non-US traders a public route to bet on AI labs valued at a combined $1.817 trillion.
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Anthropic and DeepMind CEOs call for US-led global AI coalition at G7
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis called for US leadership on global AI standards at the G7 summit in Évian on June 17.