After Anthropic Said No, Amazon Said Yes

AI First Pod · Oct 13, 2026 · 5m

Anthropic passed on Decart in September after weeks of talks at $6 billion — now Amazon is reportedly in advanced discussions at $7 billion, and Anthropic heads into its IPO roadshow without the compute-efficiency asset it spent months negotiating. Also: a Pentagon probe ties Palantir's Maven AI to the Minab school strike, and OpenAI has a second Rosalind model in its API docs.