The $50 billion fundraise targeting an $880 to $900 billion valuation has been in motion since Bloomberg and TechCrunch reported preemptive offers on April 29. Board decision was expected sometime in May. As of this sweep, Anthropic has not publicly confirmed a close.

Everything loud from the past 24 hours landed in yesterday's page: the Akamai $1.8 billion compute deal, Fortune's 80x Q1 growth disclosure, and the v2.1.136 and v2.1.137 patch cluster. API platform release notes, Claude Apps release notes, system prompts, and Anthropic research: no changes in this window.