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Anthropic opens its books, and the bill for AI comes due everywhere else
Anthropic filed its S-1 on 26 Oct. It shows US$16.3bn of first-half revenue, an 85% gross margin and US$417bn of compute leases, and it sets the price every other AI business will be judged against. The rest of the week showed who pays that bill. Microsoft offered buyouts to 60,000 staff. Alphabet lost 10% on negative free cash …
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Earlier issues
AI finds a hole in most of the web, and the patching starts in public
Two remote-code-execution flaws in the PHP engine went public on 21 Oct. Researchers using Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-5.6 Sol helped find them, the patch shipped after a leak…
The market reprices the build-out while Meta reaches the frontier
Last week the chips went on credit. This week the credit went on sale. CoreWeave’s bond yields approached 15%, an Australian data-centre operator pulled a US$5bn listing,…
The small tier gets 90% cheaper, and the chips go on credit
Anthropic cut the price of its smallest model by 90% below 100,000 tokens, nine days after three labs put near-frontier work at US$2 and US$10. In the same week the money…
Near-frontier intelligence settles at US$2, and control becomes the thing you buy
Three labs priced near-frontier capability at US$2 and US$10 per million tokens inside 48 hours: Anthropic on 28 Sep, OpenAI on 29 Sep, Google on 30 Sep. The same week Op…
Frontier intelligence gets cheaper again, and the agents keep getting out
Within one hour on 22 Sep, Anthropic cut Opus pricing by 20% and OpenAI halved the GPT-6 line. A day earlier SpaceXAI put Grok 4.7 at US$2 per million input tokens. Epoch…
The labs ask for a speed limit, and the bill arrives on WhatsApp
Dario Amodei asked the industry to slow down on 12 Sep, and within three days Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis had agreed, Microsoft had published a code of condu…
OpenAI declares AGI, Anthropic publishes the incident reports
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra on 3 Sep and said out loud that it may be artificial general intelligence. Six days later Anthropic published a post-mortem on four occasions w…