News Summary

• If it happens, it would be the largest deal in Anthropic’s history.
• Decart does not build a rival chatbot.
• It builds software that squeezes more work out of the same chips, cutting the cost of training and running AI models.
• In an era of thrift-maxxing, that is a pointed thing to spend $6bn on.
• It is a rare and rather European sort of moment, an AI leader spending big precisely so that it can spend less.