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AI companies are now held back more by money and control than by technology
Anthropic's filing discloses speed and cost together. Quarterly revenue grew twelvefold, but operating costs of $17.5 billion exceeded revenue, producing a net loss of $23.3 billion. Its compute and data center lease commitments total $895 billion, nearly nine times the roughly $100 billion the IPO could raise.
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In the same filing, Anthropic wrote that using AI to speed up its own development may soon meet the threshold in its Responsible Scaling Policy, the in-house policy that sets safety measures by risk level. Internally, the value of the Claude it uses exceeds employee compensation, and Claude writes over 90% of new code. The filing presents that speed as both a promise and a safety risk.
OpenAI and Anthropic also changed what users can do with their tools. Anthropic changed Claude Code's instructions so it won't clone existing games, while OpenAI is merging ChatGPT's Chat and Work tabs and having ChatGPT and its coding tool Codex share one allowance. Anthropic tied its change to its usage policy on IP; OpenAI says the shared allowance won't affect most users.
OpenAI is preparing a post-midterm lobbying push that puts binding safety rules on the table first. For data centers, it offered the Grid Protectors Program, a promise to reduce its power demand, but the pledge is about cutting its own usage, not making more electricity. Rules and local opinion now set the pace of the business as much as model performance does.
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Watch whether OpenAI actually releases its promised binding safety rules proposal once the midterm results are in.
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In its filing (Form S-1) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Anthropic said it may soon reach a point where AI dramatically speeds up its own development. The filing says internal estimates and expectations for future models suggest the company may imminently meet the definition of "dramatically accelerated progress attributable to AI" in its Responsible Scaling Policy, the in-house policy that sets safety measures by risk level. It adds that none of its current models has been designated as crossing that threshold. The filing also newly discloses that Anthropic has already used AI to build new models whose leaps in capability it did not recognize at the time.
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TechCrunch notes that skeptics could read an S-1 as both disclosure and marketing, so the line could be a capability boast. Still, the risk-factors section is written under legal liability to investors, which makes it hard to treat as a casual blog post. Anthropic says it does not expect to let AI design and build successive frontier models without human supervision and is considering revising the Responsible Scaling Policy to keep humans in control, so the revised policy is where to check how that control is written down.
Anthropic added two sentences to the of its coding tool Claude Code, the default instructions given to the AI in advance, to stop it from recreating existing video games. The reported wording tells Claude to build original games, games in a genre, and games from the user's own designs and assets, but not a recreation of a specific existing game, even if renamed or called original. Anthropic did not confirm that exact language but said it updated the Claude Code prompt on Claude Opus 5.5. The company said using Claude to infringe IP violates its usage policy.
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Anthropic has drawn a line in its own product against the wave of AI-built ports and clones of existing games. Ars Technica argued the effect will be limited because would-be copiers can switch to other models without such limits, or to models. The same outlet reported that complaints on Anthropic's GitHub say the prompt is blocking legitimate game development. Anthropic says it will keep iterating to strike the right balance, so what to watch is how the model separates a recreation of a specific game from a work merely inspired by one.
What to do now
If Claude Code refuses work on a game of your own design, Anthropic asked to be told, so keep a record of the refused request and reply.
Dave Vellante and John Furrier, analysts at theCUBE Research, a tech analyst firm, used their podcast to debate whether AI is a bubble after Anthropic's filing and last Friday's market slide. Shares of Intel, Alphabet, Amazon, CoreWeave and Fortinet fell that day, with Amazon down 7%. Intel dropped almost 30% over the week after its Thursday earnings report. Vellante called it a healthy sign of some air coming out of a bubble, while Furrier said it is not a bubble.
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The two reached opposite conclusions from the same week's data, but both said Wall Street now asks for durability and profit rather than a story. Vellante noted that individual productivity gains have not yet shown up at the firm level. Anthropic filed for its IPO into that market.
Anthropic's updated prospectus shows a net loss of $23.3 billion for the latest quarter, up from $12.1 billion a year earlier. According to Bloomberg, revenue in the same quarter was nearly $17 billion, twelve times the year before. But operating costs of $17.5 billion exceeded that revenue and wiped out the profit reported the previous quarter. The company pointed to $5 billion for short-term compute capacity and $2 billion in employee donation matching as the main drivers. Its commitments for compute and data center leases total $895 billion.
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Revenue rose twelvefold in a year, yet operating costs still outran it and erased the previous quarter's profit. According to the New York Times, the IPO could raise around $100 billion, a little over a tenth of the $895 billion in commitments. Future revenue has to cover the rest, so the figure to track in later filings is how fast revenue closes on those commitments.
Anthropic's filing shows that, as of April, the value of the Claude it uses internally exceeded its monthly employee compensation costs, AI Times reported, citing Business Insider. The value is calculated at the retail rates Anthropic charges customers, and stock compensation is excluded from pay. Internal use in September was more than 250 times the January level, and Claude wrote over 90% of the new code added to Anthropic's software that month. Quarterly revenue grew 86-fold from the quarter ended December 2024 to the quarter ended September 2026, while headcount rose a little over fivefold.
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Because the figure is converted at retail prices, it does not mean actual cash spending on AI exceeded payroll. Even so, token use rose 250-fold while headcount rose about fivefold, at a company where AI writes over 90% of new code. The limit on output there is moving from people's time to the token budget. AI Times adds that OpenAI said in June that 99.8% of its internal output tokens came from Codex.
OpenAI is preparing a lobbying and PR push for after the U.S. midterms, The Decoder reported, bracing for a tougher fight in Washington if Democrats win the House. Policy chief Chris Lehane plans to steer the AI debate through 2028, with the core message that AI does not replace people. To back it up, OpenAI is proposing binding safety rules, and Lehane says the top priority in the new Congress is fast-tracking safety rules for frontier models. According to Axios, the plan also includes rebranding data centers as "AI Compute Campuses" and promising economic benefits to host communities.
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OpenAI is putting binding safety rules of its own on the table before a new Congress, possibly with a Democratic House, writes any. The same day it pitched the Grid Protectors Program for the other front, local backlash against data centers.
OpenAI said it will pilot a "Grid Protectors Program" at an upcoming data center in Effingham County, Georgia, promising to free up to 1,000 megawatts of power during extreme weather or emergencies. That is enough to run air conditioners in about 700,000 homes. OpenAI argues that steady year-round demand spreads the grid's fixed costs across more electricity sales, and that flexibility lets it cut demand when the system is busiest. The pitch comes as public opinion on data centers sours.
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What is promised here is not new power supply but OpenAI cutting its own usage. States such as Tennessee, Florida, Oklahoma and Oregon have already passed laws to keep AI companies from passing energy costs on to residents, so for this pledge to be more than PR, the contracts must say who can call for the cuts and when. OpenAI says only that it is still working with policymakers and utilities.
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OpenAI plans to merge the Chat and Work tabs inside the ChatGPT desktop app, TechCrunch reported based on an email sent to users. It will first open to select users for feedback before a wider rollout. In the merged view, users can bring in files and plugins and ask ChatGPT to build a website, create a presentation or do things on the web while reviewing and guiding its work. Codex stays a separate experience in the app. But ChatGPT and Codex will draw s from the same allowance pool, so depending on usage and model, some users may wait for resets more often.
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Pooling the allowance matters more to users than merging the tabs. With ChatGPT and Codex drawing on one pool, long work in one now eats into the other. OpenAI says most users won't be affected, but people who use both tools heavily may wait for resets more often.
In its monthly recap, Google said it released two frontier models in October alone. It launched Gemini 4 Argon, a reasoning model for complex coding, financial analysis and legal workflows, globally, then two weeks later announced Gemini 4 Carbon, which it calls its strongest for long-horizon engineering and cybersecurity defense. Carbon is in pre-release testing with the U.S. government and a subset of trusted cyber defenders. The post also covers Genie 4, a world model steerable in real time, and the global expansion of SynthID Detector, which checks in English whether content was AI-generated.
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Google, too, is now giving its strongest model to government and cyber defenders before the public. Cybersecurity skill can serve attackers as well as defenders, so who gets Carbon first is a release decision in itself. The post is Google's own roundup, so its performance claims are Google's.
What to do now
You can upload an image, video or audio clip to SynthID Detector to check whether it was AI-generated. It is available in English only.
MIT Technology Review argues that the , a web used by AI agents on people's behalf, is already here. Tools such as Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots and Anthropic's Claude Duet are being given access to email and bank accounts. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra scored 73% on OSWorld 2.0, a benchmark of complex multistep tasks in software like Slack and Salesforce. As agents learn to use screens built for humans, websites find it harder to control access, and Amazon blocked Muse from its site entirely soon after the agent's release.
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The biggest change is that agents can now use screens built for humans without the site doing anything to prepare. When sites opened separate doors for agents, the site decided who got in; now leaving a site open to people means leaving it open to agents too. Sites that earn from human attention through ads and subscriptions face users who send agents instead, and Amazon has already answered by blocking Muse.
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