Amazon has poured an additional $5 billion into AI startup Anthropic, raising its total stake to $13 billion. In return, Anthropic pledged to spend more than $100 billion on Amazon Web Services over the next decade, gaining access to up to 5 GW of new computing capacity and a suite of Amazon’s custom AI chips. The deal mirrors a similar arrangement Amazon struck with OpenAI two months earlier and underscores the tech giant’s push to lock in next‑generation generative‑AI workloads on its cloud platform. Read more →