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Powerful A.I. Super PACs Duel Over the Midterms: ‘This Is a War’

✇NYT | Top Stories
Theodore Schleifer
One is allied with Anthropic. The other is tied to OpenAI. They’re both spending millions to influence the midterms, and they’re leaving a trail of fearful candidates and canceled ads in their wake.

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The artificial intelligence industry has begun spending tens of millions of dollars on elections, routing the money through allied super PACs.

The $900 Billion Giant: How Anthropic Got So Big, So Fast

✇NYT | Top Stories
Andrew Ross Sorkin， Bernhard Warner， Sarah Kessler， Michael J. de la Merced， Niko Gallogly， Brian O’Keefe， Ian Mount and Lauren Hirsch
The artificial intelligence giant was just valued at $900 billion, surpassing OpenAI. Here are the numbers behind its rise — and headwinds it faces.

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Anthropic, which created the Claude A.I. model, has surged in popularity with users, pushing its valuation to $900 billion.

Anthropic Tops OpenAI to Become the World’s Most Valuable A.I. Start-Up

✇NYT | Top Stories
Mike Isaac and Cade Metz
Anthropic raised $65 billion in new fund-raising that put its value at $900 billion, ahead of OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion, as the companies duel for A.I. dominance.

© Jason Henry for The New York Times

Anthropic’s updated model, Claude Opus 4.8, is particularly adept at vibecoding, or the process of artificial intelligence writing code from prompts in conversational English.
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