Anthropic signs up to $517B compute deals

Anthropic reportedly signed compute contracts worth up to $517 billion over eleven months but still trails OpenAI's roughly $750 billion plan through 2030. CEO Dario Amodei had warned against reckless investment earlier in 2026, and Sam Altman cautioned about "unsustainable silliness" from some neo-cloud providers.

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