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🤿Deep Dive: Enterprises are learning that unrestricted AI access comes at a price
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🤿Deep Dive: Anthropic crosses a $965 billion valuation after its latest funding round
⚒Tool Snapshots: Tools for AI, no-code, and productivity
🖼AI Art: Examples of great and trending AI art
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🤿 DEEP DIVE
Uncontrolled Claude Usage Has Cost Some Enterprises Hundreds of Millions as AI Spending Outpaces Financial Planning
Intelligence: Enterprise AI spending is spiraling out of control at some companies, with one unnamed client reportedly racking up $500 million in a single month on Anthropic's Claude after granting unrestricted access with no spending limits in place.
Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget by April after rolling out Claude Code to around 5,000 engineers, with 70% of committed code coming from AI tools and internal leaderboards rewarding usage volume over actual output quality.
Uber's own COO admitted the company cannot yet draw a clear line between increased AI tool usage and more consumer features actually shipping, raising real questions about what all that spending is producing.
Microsoft started canceling most Claude Code licenses in one of its divisions with a June 30 cutoff, a sign that even big tech companies are tightening the reins on AI tool access.
Per-engineer monthly costs for heavy Claude Code users are running between $500 and $2,000, and with token-based pricing that scales directly with usage, costs can explode fast once adoption spreads without guardrails.
Finance teams across the industry are now stepping in to add oversight on inference costs, as Anthropic hits a $30 billion annualized revenue run rate with over 1,000 businesses each spending more than $1 million a year on Claude.
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🤿 DEEP DIVE
Anthropic Just Raised $65 Billion and Is Now Valued Higher Than OpenAI
Intelligence: Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion valuation, surpassing OpenAI's $852 billion valuation and more than doubling its own valuation from just three months ago.
The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, with Coatue and ICONIQ as co-leads, and also includes infrastructure partners Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix.
$15 billion of the round comes from previously committed hyperscaler investments including $5 billion from Amazon, which separately pledged up to $25 billion in Anthropic as part of a deal where Anthropic commits to spending over $100 billion on AWS over the next decade.
Anthropic's revenue run rate has crossed $47 billion this month, up from $30 billion in April and $9 billion at the end of 2025, a pace of growth that is hard to overstate.
The company has been struggling to keep up with demand, enforcing usage limits during peak hours while it works to expand computing capacity, which is a core reason this raise is happening now.
⚒ TOOL SNAPSHOTS
Futuristic tools within AI, no-code, and productivity
📈 Exstats - Track extension performance, competitors, and market trends in one place.
🔖 Marqly 5.0 - Save anything and find it later with AI-powered search and organization.
🖥️ Wandesk - Build AI-powered desktop apps with natural language and shared context.
🎥 Clipto - Turn your local videos, audio, and files into searchable memories.
⚡ Step 3.7 Flash - Build fast, capable AI agents with an open-weight model built for real-world tasks.
🖼 AI ART
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