The Money Just Keeps Flowing Into Anthropic
We’re tired of writing about Anthropic funding rounds every week, but Anthropic clearly isn’t tired of closing them. Following the partnership news from earlier this month, Google announced this week that it plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic.
Meanwhile, Anthropic is doubling down on its growth strategy of building integrations for specific verticals. Hot on the heels of Claude Design, this week they shipped the Autodesk Fusion Connector, which can turn 2D drawings into 3D models for architects and engineers.
Claude Design β | Autodesk Fusion β
Some Juicy Gossip
A lot happened this week, and somehow it also felt like nothing did. Either way, here’s everything you might have missed.
β’ Istanbul has officially joined the list of AWS data center locations. AWS β
β’ In its latest RFS, Y Combinator made clear it now wants to back AI as a core technology, not just a feature. YC RFS β
β’ DeepSeek V4 is out, and it claims to outperform Claude Opus 4.6. DeepSeek β
β’ Elon Musk took the stand in the lawsuit he filed alleging OpenAI was ‘stolen’. Reuters β
β’ OpenAI ended its exclusivity deal with Microsoft and, almost immediately, landed on AWS. CNBC β
β’ X is one step closer to becoming a super app with the launch of X Money. Yahoo Finance β
β’ GPT-5.5 is now available to API users. OpenAI β
β’ Google has expanded the Pentagon’s access to its AI models. TechCrunch β
β’ Lovable now has a mobile app. Lovable β
