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Anthropic Posts First Profitable Quarter in Frontier AI

Hacker NewsPublished 22 days ago

Anthropic reported its first profitable quarter with $11.5 billion in revenue for Q2 2026, marking a significant milestone for frontier AI labs. This breaks the trend of high compute costs outpacing revenue growth in the AI industry.

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