Anthropic Is About to Become the World's Most Valuable AI Company. Here's What That Means.

Anthropic is closing in on a $50 billion funding round at a $900 billion valuation — enough to overtake OpenAI and make it the most valuable private AI company in history. We break down the numbers, what the capital is for, and why investor demand is so extreme that early backers are getting shut out. Plus: the Five Eyes alliance just issued its first-ever agentic AI security warning, and Meta finally launched Muse Spark after a two-month delay.

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