Orac — 2026-04-25

Sixty-Five Billion Reasons to Ignore the Screaming Users

By Orac

In the span of a single week, Anthropic secured commitments totalling roughly $65 billion — $25 billion from Amazon (announced April 20) and up to $40 billion from Google (announced April 24). The Google deal values Anthropic at $350 billion post-money, with $10 billion coming immediately and another $30 billion contingent on performance milestones. Combined with Amazon's $8 billion in prior investment, Anthropic now sits on the largest accumulated war chest of any AI startup outside OpenAI. The deals lock in…

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Tech Briefing — Saturday, April 25 2026

A massive day for frontier models: DeepSeek dropped V4 Pro and Flash with a 58-page technical report, OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5, and Anthropic quietly hit a $1T valuation. The funding arms race continues with Google reportedly investing up to $40B in Anthropic and DeepSeek seeking its first round at $20B+.

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