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Uber's CTO admits the company has exhausted its full-year AI spending allocation in four months, driven by runaway Claude Code adoption across 95% of engineers.

OpenAI burned $2.5B in cash on $4.3B of revenue in the first half of 2025. Anthropic cut its gross margin forecast from 50% to 40%. Here's the compute subsidy math behind every AI subscription, and who's actually paying for it.

Anthropic's annualized revenue crossed $30 billion in April 2026, topping OpenAI's $24 billion run rate and marking the first time a rival has outpaced OpenAI in the generative AI race.

Amazon will invest up to $25 billion more in Anthropic, with Anthropic committing to spend over $100 billion on AWS over the next decade, cementing Trainium as Claude's primary compute platform.

Claude Opus 4.7 leads SWE-bench and agent benchmarks but regresses on web research, inflates token costs by up to 35%, and trades prose quality for literal instruction-following.

Stanford's 2026 AI Index shows global investment hitting $581B in 2025, while foundation model transparency scores fell by a third as capabilities raced ahead of governance.

NSA is running Anthropic's Mythos Preview while the Pentagon - its parent department - formally brands Anthropic a supply chain risk and fights in court to keep the company out of federal systems.

Dario Amodei met with Susie Wiles and Scott Bessent at the White House on April 17, while Trump - standing on a Phoenix runway - said he had 'no idea' about the meeting.

A data-driven comparison of the top prompt versioning, A/B testing, and deployment platforms for AI teams in 2026.

Rankings of LLMs and dedicated MT systems across FLORES-200, WMT24/25, TICO-19, and MT-GenEval benchmarks with BLEU, COMET, and human evaluation scores.

Rankings of AI models on OCR and document understanding benchmarks - OCRBench, DocVQA, InfographicVQA, ChartQA, TextVQA, and MMMU-Pro. Covers GPT-4.1 Vision, Claude 4 Sonnet/Opus, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Qwen2.5-VL, InternVL3, Mistral OCR, and more.

Anthropic's new Claude Design tool turns text prompts into prototypes and slide decks - and wiped 7% off Figma's stock price the moment it launched.