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Anthropic's Cuts, DeepSeek's Cache, and CoreWeave Debt — October 19, 2026
Junior technical hires at Anthropic dropped from twenty-seven percent to nine percent in a year. Bond traders are now pricing the biggest AI chip landlord's default risk at over sixty percent. Less hiring, more debt. We go through DeepSeek's quarter-sized memory cache, Replit's swap from Claude to OpenAI, the pricing confusion even AI startups admit to, Apple's robot-armed smart display, and Cloudflare's trick for scaling millions of databases.
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