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so OpenAI hit $40 billion in run rate (so like $3bn in monthly revenue) months after Anthropic did, mysteriously dropping the same day that its CRO left and Anthropic had a story in the FT pumping its IPO. Revenue growth definitely slowing

511 likes19 repliesPosted Aug 13, 2026

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SB Energy S-1 is an absolute dog, $439bn backlog, only $1 billion of which will be recognized in the next *two years*, and $351 billion of which will take longer than 4 to 8 years to pull in. Safe to assume mostly from OpenAI's Ohio and Miami deals. t.co

Lambda (NVDA investment, $1.4bn contract) signing a deal with NVIDIA, so Anthropic (who lacks the credit to sign I assume?) can maybe rent back capacity that is leased in NVIDIA's name, built by Hut8, who is also building capacity with Fluidstack. Every bad sign possible lol

this is *insane*. NVIDIA's CFO literally said on the call last night that this was a way that NVIDIA would "get paid twice," despite having discontinued the program a week beforehand. They're denying this report, but I trust Anissa's reporting far more than Colette kress

Anthropic to spend $45 billion it doesn’t have on chips that haven’t been shipped to a company (Nscale) that has yet to start building the data center to put them in so it can take the contract and use it to raise money to do it, all to pump its IPO.

meta considered firing a bunch of people and replacing them with AI but didn't because it wouldn't remotely work! Feels like a huge story, and makes me wonder what the people talking about "Zuck's AI assistant" or "Meta's agents" were huffing

This is absolutely god damn ridiculous at this point. NVIDIA is effectively bailing out anyone in the AI industry as a means of inflating their valuations and keeping them buying compute. Sorry, perplexity is not worth $30 billion in anything other than the circularverse