News Summary

• Anthropic has acquired the co-founders and most of the team behind Humanloop.
• Humanloop is a platform for prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability.
• Anthropic is growing fast in the enterprise space as it leads in agentic and coding capabilities.
• The terms of the deal were not shared, but it appears to follow the acqui-hire playbook we’re increasingly seeing in the tech industry amid the war for AI talent.
• In a market where model quality alone isn’t enough to stay competitive, bolstering its tooling ecosystem could position Anthropic to cement its lead over OpenAI and Google DeepMind.