Anthropic's $10B lease, Databricks at $188B, Amazon's billing error - July 18, 2026

Cortech Daily · Jul 18, 2026 · 8m

Anthropic looks to lease ten billion dollars of compute from a direct rival, Amazon bills some cloud customers billions by accident, ransomware crews chain two SonicWall zero-days, and Patreon stops politely asking AI scrapers to stay out.

(0:00) - Intro

(0:26) - Anthropic in talks to lease ten billion dollars of compute from Meta - source

(1:17) - Databricks hits a one hundred eighty-eight billion dollar valuation - source

(2:07) - Amazon bills some cloud customers billions of dollars by mistake - source

(2:52) - Inc ransomware exploits two SonicWall remote access zero-days - source

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