Anthropic signed a $10 billion compute deal with Volta, a newly founded cloud startup, to receive cloud capacity over six years from a Norway data center built with Bitdeer and powered by Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips at 133 megawatts. Anthropic secured this agreement as part of an aggressive expansion of compute resources to compete with rivals, following similar recent deals with SpaceX and Amazon. The arrangement gives Volta a major client and establishes Bitdeer's involvement in developing AI infrastructure outside crypto mining.
Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, former president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former California Supreme Court Justice, has joined Anthropic as its first Chief Global Affairs Officer to lead policy, government relations, and international engagement work. Cuéllar brings decades of experience across law, technology, international security, and public institutions, including prior roles directing Stanford's international security centers and serving on presidential intelligence and state department boards. His appointment positions Anthropic to deepen relationships with governments and policymakers as they develop frameworks for governing artificial intelligence globally.
Steve Yegge described how Gas Town, a reusable system he built, failed when Anthropic's Opus 4.7 introduced a problematic behavior pattern where the model constantly wanted to revise itself rather than converge on a working state. The critical breaking point occurred with version 4.7's release, which Yegge characterized as the final cause of Gas Town's collapse. This failure illustrates challenges in building stable systems dependent on specific LLM behavior patterns and version compatibility.
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