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OpenAI’s top customer burns 100 billion tokens a month, and Sam Altman just admitted AI costs became a huge issue in 2026. Here’s what changed and how to cut your own AI bill.

Daniela Amodei is the president and co-founder of Anthropic, the AI safety company behind Claude. Born in San Francisco in 1987, she co-founded Anthropic with her older brother Dario Amodei in 2021 after both left OpenAI, where she served as VP of Safety and Policy. Anthropic reached a $380 billion valuation in February 2026 and is reportedly in talks to raise at a $900 billion pre-money valuation as of May 2026. A note that clears up the most common confusion about her: Daniela and Dario Amodei are siblings, not spouses. Her husband is Holden Karnofsky, the co-founder of Open Philanthropy (now called Coefficient Giving). This article walks through her background, […]

Claude Opus 4.8 takes the #1 spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 61.4, beating GPT-5.5. Full benchmarks, pricing, and what’s new.

Dario Amodei is (1) the CEO and co-founder of Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude. (2) a former Vice President of Research at OpenAI who led the development of GPT-2 and GPT-3. (3) a Princeton-trained biophysicist with a PhD in neural-circuit electrophysiology. (4) a $7 billion billionaire as of February 2026 per Forbes. (5) the author of the essay “Machines of Loving Grace” that put the 2026-2027 powerful AI timeline at the center of the global AI conversation. He is 43 years old, born in San Francisco in 1983 to a Jewish-American mother and an Italian-American father. He is older brother of Anthropic president Daniela Amodei. This article covers Dario […]

Update, July 2026: Refreshed for the resolved valuation race and the new flagship models. Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion post-money valuation on May 28, 2026, overtaking OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup, and both labs have since shipped new flagships. Anthropic’s current top model is Claude Opus 5, released July 24, 2026, and OpenAI’s is GPT-5.6. For the first time since ChatGPT launched, Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI in US business adoption. Ramp’s April 2026 AI Index, published on May 13, puts Anthropic at 34.4% of tracked enterprise spending versus OpenAI at 32.3%. Anthropic added 3.8 percentage points in a single month while OpenAI […]

Legal-AI company Harvey reported a ~6x increase in agent task-completion rates after switching on a feature Anthropic launched on May 6, 2026 called Claude Dreaming. The same legal-drafting jobs that used to fail repeatedly, because Claude kept forgetting filetype quirks and tool-specific workarounds between sessions, suddenly started finishing reliably. That is the headline number the AI world has been talking about for the past week. It is the first real proof that giving an AI agent the ability to “remember and reflect” between jobs changes what AI can do. Claude Dreaming is one of three new features Anthropic shipped at Code with Claude 2026, alongside Outcomes and Multiagent Orchestration. The […]

Everything you need to know about Claude Cowork — Anthropic’s AI desktop agent. Features, real pricing, setup guide, honest review, and how it compares to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude Code.

Claude Code costs $20/month on the Pro plan ($17 annual), $100/month on Max 5x, $200/month on Max 20x, $25/seat/month on Team Standard ($20 annual), $125/seat/month on Team Premium ($100 annual). Enterprise is $20/seat plus API usage. The Free Claude tier does not include Claude Code. API access bills per token at $1/$5 per million on Haiku 4.5, $2/$10 on Sonnet 5 until August 31, and $5/$25 on Claude Opus 5. The Claude for Open Source program offers six months of Max 20x free for qualifying maintainers, a $1,200 value. Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 5 runs at $2/$10 per million tokens until August 31, 2026, then $3/$15, and it is what Claude […]

WWDC 2026 runs June 8 to 12, with the keynote on Monday, June 8 at 10am Pacific Time streamed on Apple.com, the Apple TV app, and the Apple YouTube channel. Apple sent media invites on May 18, 2026 confirming the full schedule, and on May 23 quietly registered a new genai.apple.com subdomain that almost nobody outside MacRumors has spotted. This year’s keynote is the most consequential AI moment Apple has ever had. On January 12, 2026, Apple and Google jointly announced that the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be built on a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter Google Gemini model. Apple is reportedly paying around $1 billion per year for it. […]

Claude pricing in 2026 has seven core SKUs: Free at $0, Pro at $20/month ($17 with annual billing), Max 5x at $100/month, Max 20x at $200/month, Team Standard at $25/seat, Team Premium at $125/seat, and Enterprise at $20/seat plus API usage. API rates run from $1 per million input tokens on Haiku 4.5 up to $50 per million output tokens on the Fable 5 flagship. The newest model, Claude Opus 5, landed on July 24, 2026 at $5/$25, the same rate as Opus 4.8 and half of Fable 5. This guide breaks down every Claude pricing dimension you’ll actually pay for: subscription tiers, API rates per million tokens, Claude Code, […]