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Anthropic had the biggest week of 2026 for AI, as revealed by CEO Dario Amodei. The company's Q1 revenue grew 80-fold, reaching a reported $44B annual run rate. To secure compute capacity, Anthropic committed $200B to Google Cloud over five years—representing over 40% of Alphabet's revenue backlog—and signed a separate compute deal with SpaceX and xAI to access the Colossus 1 supercomputer. On the product front, Anthropic shipped Claude Code Auto Mode and launched ten financial-services agents in partnership with JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon. These moves solidify Anthropic's position as a leading AI infrastructure player.

Beyond Anthropic, the week saw several major AI developments. The EU Council and Parliament finally struck a deal on AI Act compliance, pushing the high-risk AI deadline to December 2027 and banning AI-generated CSAM. Google DeepMind became the first top AI lab to hold a union vote. Pennsylvania sued Character.AI for a chatbot that impersonated a licensed psychiatrist—the first gubernatorial AI enforcement action. Additionally, publishers sued Meta, alleging Zuckerberg personally authorized torrenting 267TB of pirated books to train Llama.