Aug 21 2026

Anthropic hires Amir Salek, who delivered the first seven generations of Google's TPU, to lay groundwork for in-house AI chips, reporting to compute lead James Bradbury.

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Anthropic holds the Sonnet 5 price increase · 70%, resolves November 30th 2026
Anthropic IPOs before OpenAI · 75%, resolves August 6th 2027
Anthropic keeps Model 2 unreleased through February 2027 · 70%, resolves March 1st 2027
A second flagship API adopts time-of-day pricing · 55%, resolves February 17th 2027
Anthropic runs no production traffic on Fractile silicon in 2027 · 70%, resolves December 31st 2027
Broadcom's Anthropic chip financing closes at $60 billion or more · 65%, resolves June 30th 2027

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