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Tuesday, 18 August 2026

A Claude Code skill was eating 200,000 tokens before answering a single question

The New Stack 2 months ago 35

Anthropic's Claude Code /claude-api skill was loading 200,000 tokens of bundled reference documentation upfront before answering questions, but the company reduced this to 25,000 tokens in version 2.1.234 by switching to on-demand loading of documentation. The fix cuts initial context cost by at least 85.7%, addressing a problem developers had identified in July where even a one-line question consumed massive hidden token overhead. This change leaves more room in Claude's context window for actual repository content and user work, reducing the fixed overhead that compounds at enterprise scale.

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$65bn vs $40bn: How Anthropic Overtook OpenAI on Revenue

Trending Topics 2 months ago 8 ● 10 sources

Anthropic reached an annualised revenue run rate of $65 billion by late July 2025, surpassing OpenAI's $40 billion run rate, according to unnamed sources cited by Bloomberg. The key difference: Anthropic released Claude Code in early 2025 as an autonomous agent for developers, followed by Cowork for non-programmers in early 2026, each generating high-value enterprise seats, while OpenAI pursued consumer reach through free products and advertising with lower monetisation. Anthropic's focused enterprise-agent strategy generated steeper revenue growth over three months, while OpenAI spent billions on consumer products like Sora that failed to convert users into paying customers, forcing a costly pivot to enterprise coding tools.

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