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Speaking at Code with Claude, Dario Amodei revealed that Anthropic's annualised revenue and usage grew roughly 80-fold in Q1 2026, lifting the company to a $30 billion run rate. Amodei admitted the firm planned for 10x annual growth, and that the gap between plan and reality is the reason Claude users have been bumping into compute ceilings.
Bloomberg reports that Anthropic has signed a seven-year, $1.8 billion deal for Akamai's distributed compute, the largest contract in the CDN provider's history. Akamai shares jumped close to 30% in late trading, as investors digested the pivot from edge content delivery to AI inference for Claude.
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Anthropic has donated Petri, its open-source toolkit for probing model behaviour, to Meridian Labs so that development can continue independently of any AI lab. The handover ships alongside Petri 3.0, which separates auditor and target models, integrates with the Bloom alignment tool, and adds a new Dish add-on that runs scenarios against models' real production scaffolds.
The latest Claude Code release keeps long URLs clickable when terminal output wraps, parallelises the ultrareview launch, and adds a clear 10-minute timeout when subagents stall mid-stream. There are also quality-of-life fixes for /loop wakeups, large stdin piping, drag-and-drop image uploads, and 1M-context sessions that previously tripped the autocompact limit.
Anthropic engineer Thariq has published a long-form essay making the case that markdown's dominance as the agent output format is a historical accident and that HTML produces richer, more useful artefacts when generated by Claude Code. He shares the prompts and patterns he now uses to push Claude towards self-contained HTML files for reports, dashboards and notes.
Thariq →Less than a day after a four-and-a-half-hour outage on 8 May, DownDetector logged another surge of Claude problem reports on Saturday evening. The repeat incident follows a string of availability wobbles tied to surging demand and the rate-limit changes that came with Anthropic's new SpaceX and Akamai compute deals.