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Grateful to the New York Stock Exchange for interviewing many speakers at the 2026 Global Game Summit.
Very excited to see the interest in soccer growing in the US.
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Magnus Norman will be the new Jannik Sinner's coach, reports THE TIMES.
Big news.
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Harry Kane after winning the Ballon d’Or:
‘I want to say thank you to Tottenham, I wouldn’t be where I am at without Tottenham.’
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FACT: The annual funding Israel receives from the US amounts to less than one-tenth of 1% of the federal budget. Less than 1/10th of 1%.
FACT: That annual funding would cover only a few hours of federal health care spending. A few hours.
Yet politicians who specialize in scapegoating would have you believe that Israel is responsible for America’s affordability crisis.
Like every form of scapegoating before it, it is a dangerous lie.
This 👇
Some serious economic misinformation to go with the antisemitism in this ad that blames Israel for the rising price of American eggs, bananas, healthcare
- it falsely links American families’ grocery bills and healthcare costs to U.S. aid to Israel.
- Aid to Israel is approximately 0.05% of federal spending
- Most American military assistance to Israel goes to buy goods and services from U.S. defense contractors.
- U.S. assistance is overwhelmingly military, not a direct subsidy for Israeli healthcare
- most American bananas come from Guatemala, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Honduras and prices are rising because of El Niño.
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A list of stats from the Anthropic S-1:
- NDR is ~900%
- Revenue per employee is over $6.6M, up from about $1.4M a year earlier
- Revenue went from $41M three years ago to $16.3B in the first six months of 2026
- Quarterly revenue went from $4.7B in Q1 to $11.6B in Q2
- Q2 2026 was the first profitable quarter: $974M in operating income ($1.7B operating loss the quarter before)
- Adjusted operating income was $1.6B in the first half of 2026, up from a $1.8B adjusted loss a year earlier
- Revenue grew 1,368% year over year in Q2, while compute and infrastructure costs grew 300%
- Compute went from 251% of revenue to 48% in five quarters
- The value of Anthropic’s own internal Claude usage grew 250x from January to September 2026
- Anthropic spends more on tokens (at list price) than on payroll
- Over 1,900 customers pay $1M+ a year, and about 250 pay $10M+
- Customers paying $100K+ went from 950 to over 11,900 in a year
- Over half of the Fortune 500 pays $100K+ a year
- Those Fortune 500 customers still spend less than 0.1% of their total expenses with Anthropic
- The top 5% of Claude Code users spend roughly 20x what non-users on Claude Enterprise do
- About 40 million smaller customers
- $72.4B of the $80.7B first-half net loss is an accounting charge on convertible notes (not operating losses)
- Nearly $800B in compute commitments over 10 years
$141.1B raised in total, with over $130B in cash and short-term investments
- Nearly half of revenue comes through Amazon, Google and Microsoft’s cloud marketplaces, all of which also compete with Claude
- A single share held by the seven co-founders carries 50.1% of the vote
- That share is redeemed for nothing if fewer than three founders remain
Krishna Rao is the CFO of Anthropic, and this is his first podcast appearance.
He joined the company two years ago when run-rate revenue was about $250M. Today it is $30B. He has helped raise ~$75B and is responsible for the procurement and allocation of compute.
I feel lucky we get to hear what it is like to sit inside a company this consequential at a moment this pivotal.
We discuss:
- The cone of uncertainty
- How he allocates compute across Trainium, TPUs, and GPUs
- What investors misunderstand about model companies
- Why the returns to frontier intelligence keep rising
- Platform vs application and where Anthropic builds its own products
- How Anthropic uses Claude internally
I have asked my closing question about the kindest thing more than 500 times. Krishna's answer is one I have never heard before.
Enjoy!
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
2:38 The Compute Canvas
6:51 The "Cone of Uncertainty"
11:58 Why the Returns to Frontier Intelligence Are So High
16:45 Recursive Self-Improvement
20:20 Scaling Laws
23:30 Sourcing $100 Billion in Compute
28:05 Platform vs. Application Strategy
32:52 Pricing Dynamics
38:48 How Anthropic’s Finance Team Uses Claude
43:24 Raising Capital & Overcoming Investor Skepticism
52:32 Public Perception, Risks, and Government Regulation
57:25 Mythos Release
1:12:33 What Could Derail the AI Revolution?
1:13:47 Biotech and Healthcare
1:15:31 The Kindest Thing
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Anthropic's IPO filing was just released. We break down the details of the blockbuster offering and what it means for markets.
Follow live updates: 🔗 on.wsj.com/48hxRgm
Apollo Chief Economist Torsten Slok claims that while revenue per worker and profit margins have risen for the “Magnificent 7," both have stagnated across the S&P 493 - with no clear indication of AI-driven productivity growth.
Interesting findings 👇
Saw 7 films this past week (in cinemas) during Montclair Film Festival.
All were sold out.
In the AI/social media era, folks are looking for more ways to get together in person.
Great to see it.
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UCLA was 0-0.
Then 1-0.
Then 2-0.
Then 3-0.
Then 4-0.
Then 5-0.
Then 6-0.
Then 7-0.
Bob Chesney made UCLA a Football School.
Looking forward to leading a discussion with one of the co-founders of Utopai next week in SF
AI film startup Utopai Studios raised $60 million at a $1 billion valuation and is already fielding offers that could value it at up to $3 billion. The company plans to release three feature films in theaters next year.
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