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The way to read the latest Anthropic financing is to notice who is not borrowing the money. Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are arranging roughly $36 billion of debt, but the loan does not sit on Anthropic’s balance sheet. It buys chips, and the chips get leased back. The two firms are bringing additional investors […]

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship AI model that the company says is more honest, more reliable in agentic tasks, and better at catching its own mistakes. The model is available immediately at the same price as its predecessor, $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens, […]

The formal opening of Anthropic’s sixth European office lands the same week as Pope Leo’s AI encyclical, with the company naming a roster of Italian enterprise deployments. nthropic formally opened its Milan office on Wednesday, the sixth European location for the US AI lab after London, Dublin, Paris, Zurich and Munich. The opening completes the […]

The European Central Bank has formally told eurozone banks they must tighten their cyber-security posture in response to AI-led attack tools, in a follow-up statement issued on Wednesday that turns earlier private guidance into something closer to a supervisory expectation. The ECB’s vice-chair of the Single Supervisory Mechanism, Frank Elderson, framed the shift in language […]