Amazon reported better-than-expected revenue and cloud growth for the second quarter. The stock shot up more than 9% in extended trading. Here’s how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: Earnings per share: $5.75 a share. That may not compare with the $1.82 per share expected by LSEG Revenue: $200.61 billion…
Anthropic on Friday announced its latest artificial intelligence model, Claude Opus 5, which it said is its best-performing and most cost-effective offering across a number of industry benchmarks. Opus 5 outperforms the last model that Anthropic released, Claude Fable 5, on coding and knowledge work evaluations, and the company said it’s “designed to be used…
The White House is visited by tourists on July 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir and more than 20 other companies released a letter on Friday urging policymakers to avoid “premature restrictions” on open-weight artificial intelligence models that would “stifle competition or drive innovation overseas.” Open-weight…
anthropic leap Revenue run rate of $47 billion by May, Compared to $9 billion in 2025. This is the kind of growth that Menlo Ventures matt murphy Says he’s never seen anything like this in 25 years of investing, not in the internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led…
Alphabet is releasing three new Gemini models on Tuesday, including its clearest answer yet to Anthropic‘s lead in cybersecurity, as the company looks to show progress across a product pipeline that has faced delays and mounting competition. Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber is designed to detect and patch software vulnerabilities and will initially be available only…
Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Prakash Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anthropic is in very preliminary talks to lease artificial intelligence computing power from Meta, a person familiar with the matter told CNBC’s Kate Rooney. Shares…
President Donald Trump points his finger as he signs an executive order on AI next to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, left, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Dec. 11, 2025. Al Drago | Reuters The Trump administration has taken new steps to assert…
The latest version of the KM model series from Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI is expected to perform on par with or even surpass Anthropic’s Opus 4.8. Financial Times reportedCiting unknown sources. Moonshot’s kmi k2 model The open source AI has been well received in the market, ranking high on benchmarks and demonstrating capabilities that…
Can a handful of engineers really serve as an army of consultants? That’s the stake behind OD with Anthropic – a joint venture dedicated to embedding forward-deployed engineers in enterprise firms backed by Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, Goldman Sachs and others. In this episode of TechCrunch equity Podcast, Rebecca Bellan sits down with the…
Okta and Crowtstrike. Jonathan Raa | Nikolas Kokovlis | Nurphoto | Getty Images Cybersecurity stocks jumped on Tuesday after IBM CEO Arvind Krishna flagged cyber fears as a top priority for customers in the company’s preliminary second-quarter results. During the period, Krishna said customers shifted spending to servers and memory and that “rapidly-evolving, industry-wide cybersecurity…
