Why is the DOJ investigating Andreessen Horowitz’s board seats?

Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Just…

Broadcom seeks more than $60bn in debt to fund AI chips for Anthropic
Broadcom seeks more than $60bn in debt to fund AI chips for Anthropic

Broadcom is in talks with lenders to raise more than $60bn in debt, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The money would finance AI chips for Anthropic and other companies. Bloomberg cited people with knowledge of the matter. The figures under discussion co…

DeepSeek launches an experimental multimodal model to rival Anthropic
DeepSeek launches an experimental multimodal model to rival Anthropic

DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday and said its agent performance is close to Anthropic’s Opus-4.8. On DeepSeek’s own published table, it beats that model on three benchmarks out of eleven. DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is live…

OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates

Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies’ investors pause about how “sticky” enterprise AI spending really is.

Anthropic is targeting an IPO the size of the largest ever
Anthropic is targeting an IPO the size of the largest ever

Anthropic expects its IPO to match or exceed SpaceX’s record $75bn raise, and could file publicly as soon as the end of this month. It made a net loss of almost $42bn in 2025, five times the year before. Anthropic expects its stock market debut to matc…

Slack launches Slack Code, where teams and AI agents build together
Slack launches Slack Code, where teams and AI agents build together

Slack launched a coding product on Thursday. Slack Code adds project-specific channels where teams and AI agents write, review and ship software together. The work happens inside the chat app rather than in a separate browser tab. The mechanic is simpl…

OpenAI previews Private Safety Processing to keep zero data retention
OpenAI previews Private Safety Processing to keep zero data retention

OpenAI has told enterprise customers that its promise not to keep their data will survive the next generation of models. The company set out the position on Wednesday in a post titled “Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models”. In it, it previe…

OpenAI’s CFO told staff it will go public in 2027, or sooner
OpenAI’s CFO told staff it will go public in 2027, or sooner

OpenAI has finally put a date on its stock market debut. The company “will be a public company in 2027,” or sooner if its business keeps growing fast, chief financial officer Sarah Friar told staff at an all-hands meeting. CNBC reported the comments, c…

A $1.3bn loan will help build a Texas data centre for Anthropic
A $1.3bn loan will help build a Texas data centre for Anthropic

An investment firm is lending about $1.3bn to help build a giant AI data centre in Texas that will house Anthropic. It is one of the latest jumbo deals fuelling the AI boom. Eagle Point Credit Management is providing the loan, Bloomberg reported. The l…

OpenAI seeks to one-up Anthropic with new customer privacy protections

A competition is developing between OpenAI and Anthropic over who can provide the best privacy protections for enterprise customer data.