Last October, Mark Zuckerberg mentioned almost in passing that companies kept asking Meta if they could buy computing capacity from it, at a premium. It sounded like a hypothetical. On July 17, the New York Times turned it into a very real story. Meta and Anthropic are in early talks for a ...
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Anthropic proposed the arrangement in June, according to a report in The New York Times, citing people familiar with the discussions.