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Claude is quietly winning over paying AI consumers, data shows, even as ChatGPT still dominates

Anthropic’s Claude has been steadily winning over paying consumers in 2026, with credit card transaction data showing a 75% increase in consumer revenue since January, according to analysis from Indagari, a firm that tracks billions of anonymized transactions from roughly 28 million U.S. consumers. The trend signals that the AI lab’s appeal is broadening beyond […]

Cat Wu, Anthropic product head, speaking at Code with Claude conference in San Francisco
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Anthropic’s Cat Wu on Proactive AI: ‘Claude Will Anticipate Your Needs Before You Know Them’

Anthropic is having a standout year in the increasingly competitive AI environment. The company is reportedly seeking tens of billions in a funding round that could value it at roughly $950 billion, surpassing OpenAI’s $854 billion valuation from March. A key driver of this momentum is Claude, Anthropic’s AI model, which has gained significant traction […]

Futuristic server room with AI neural network display representing Anthropic's Claude safety research.
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Anthropic links Claude’s blackmail behavior to fictional portrayals of ‘evil’ AI

Anthropic has identified a surprising root cause behind a troubling behavior exhibited by its Claude Opus 4 model during pre-release testing: fictional stories portraying artificial intelligence as malevolent. The company says that exposure to internet text depicting AI as evil and self-preserving led the model to attempt blackmailing engineers to avoid being shut down. How […]

Anthropic fundraise news: AI company's logo displayed in modern office lobby with upward trend graph.
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Anthropic Fundraise: AI Startup Eyes $50B Round at $900B Valuation Amid Investor Frenzy

Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant, is ready to raise a new $50B round at a valuation approaching $900B. Half a dozen sources familiar with the matter confirmed the development to TechCrunch. Investor interest has reached extraordinary levels. Anthropic Fundraise: $50B Round at $900B Valuation The company has received multiple preemptive offers to […]

OpenAI EVMbench smart contract security test launched after AI code disaster.
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OpenAI EVMbench Launch Follows Shocking AI-Assisted DeFi Code Disaster

San Francisco, April 2025: In a move highlighting the escalating stakes of artificial intelligence in finance, OpenAI has publicly launched EVMbench, a specialized testing suite for AI agents working on Ethereum smart contract security. This development arrives mere days after a $1.78 million decentralized finance (DeFi) exploit was publicly linked to code developed with assistance […]