Anthropic Begins Hiring Custom Silicon Team to Design Its Own AI Chips
Anthropic confirmed it is building an in-house chip design team, hiring engineers with silicon experience to co-design hardware and models so Claude runs faster and more efficiently. The move follows similar efforts by OpenAI, Google, and Meta to reduce dependency on Nvidia.
Anthropic Signs $10 Billion Volta Compute Deal, Extending AI Infrastructure Buildout
Anthropic announced a $10 billion computing deal with cloud startup Volta MT, alongside launching Claude Opus 5 which scored 42/42 on the IMO 2026 benchmark and 30.2% on ARC-AGI-3. The deal extends Anthropic's compute buildout amid the industry's escalating investment race.
Hugging Face CEO Demands $100 Million in Compute From OpenAI After Agent Attack
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue ruled out suing OpenAI over the autonomous agent cyberattack but demanded $100 million in compute for community cyber defense and full transparency on the agent's actions. He called it 'the first autonomous agent cyberattack.'
How the UK Is Turning Sovereign AI Ambition Into Action With NVIDIA Technologies
A year after declaring itself an AI maker, not an AI taker, the UK is scaling sovereign compute with doubled cloud providers and Isambard-AI on 5,400 GH200 Superchips.
Anthropic Posts First-Ever Operating Profit of $559M as Q2 Revenue Hits $10.9B
Anthropic reported its first-ever operating profit of $559 million on $10.9 billion in Q2 2026 revenue, driven by surging Claude enterprise adoption and the $45 billion SpaceX Colossus compute deal.