Anthropic is negotiating a second multibillion-dollar agreement with UK-based cloud provider Nscale to lease computing capacity, according to a source who spoke to CNBC. The deal would cover a second 460-megawatt data center at the same West Virginia site as an earlier agreement reported in August, and could be worth roughly $45 billion. Anthropic declined to comment, and Nscale has not yet responded to requests for comment.
Amazon has made Alexa+, its generative AI-powered upgrade to Alexa, free for all Prime members. The assistant, built using Anthropic's large language models and Amazon's Nova AI suite, is accessible through Alexa-enabled devices, Amazon's new tablets, a mobile app, and the alexa.com website. Non-Prime users can subscribe separately to Alexa+ or try a limited free version via the app or website.
Bloomberg reports, citing people familiar with the matter, that Anthropic and AI infrastructure provider Nscale are close to announcing another $45 billion compute agreement, just over a month after their first deal of the same size. Sources caution that talks remain ongoing and terms could still change. TechCrunch says it has contacted both companies for comment.
CNBC's Jim Cramer said investors should not chase Monday's tech rebound, which saw the Nasdaq Composite rise about 1.1% after last week's AI stock selloff pushed the index below its 50-day moving average. Cramer identified four conditions he wants met before turning bullish again on data center stocks: improved chart patterns, hyperscaler earnings reports, the election concluding, and Anthropic completing its IPO.
Anthropic published an internal report on how its employees now use its Claude AI agents day-to-day, with workers describing a shift from doing tasks themselves to overseeing and managing multiple AI agents, a practice some called 'babysitting Claudes.' The report follows last month's resignation of an employee who publicly warned that the company was 'racing straight to self-improving superintelligence.'
OpenAI and Anthropic continue to generate billions of dollars in revenue, but reports indicate their growth rates are decelerating. That slowdown is drawing scrutiny from investors who are questioning whether current valuations across the AI sector are justified.
Anthropic announced it will set aside 5% of its total equity for a new fund dedicated to the 'public good.' The announcement has prompted skeptical reactions from observers questioning the company's motives and intentions.
Elon Musk announced on X that he plans to give one SpaceX share to every child in America starting next year, calling it 'the first of many' such gestures. SpaceX shares, which began trading publicly in June after a record IPO, closed around $146 on Friday, making the pledged giveaway worth roughly $10.7 billion based on Census Bureau estimates of about 73 million Americans under 18. Musk did not detail how the shares would be distributed or who would qualify.
Nick Cammarata, who previously worked on interpretability techniques at OpenAI, published a blog post suggesting a new way to understand the internal structure of neural networks, challenging the long-held view that their mechanisms are inherently tangled and unreadable. The post triggered strong reactions online, with some researchers calling it a landmark moment in AI science, while others, including Stanford's Chris Potts, argue it offers little more than a hunch without solving the field's core problems.
Elon Musk posted on X that he plans to give one SpaceX share to every child in the United States starting next year, calling it 'the first of many' such gifts. Based on roughly 73 million Americans under 18 and SpaceX's recent $146 per-share price, the pledge would be worth about $10.7 billion, though Musk has not detailed how shares would be distributed or who would qualify.
An Anthropic blog post describes how the company assigns Claude instances to dedicated Slack channels, each obsessively tracking the health of a single system component such as its scion-daemon or merge queue. These AI 'superfans' have access to telemetry and logs and work alongside traditional automated alerts, with Anthropic saying they can spot subtle, novel issues that conventional alerting misses.
A cybersecurity opinion column argues that 2026 will be remembered as the year of 'vulnerability' in the industry's lexicon, pointing to the April disclosure of Anthropic's Claude Mythos and the ensuing fear-driven reaction. CISA reported more than 67,000 CVEs published by mid-September 2026, with an expected total of 96,000 by year-end, yet the author contends the industry wrongly equates this rising volume with actual risk.
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