Anthropic's $4.6bn revenue, Broadcom's $42bn chip loan, AMD's $8.2bn World Labs buy
MirelaXhota · x · 2026-10-04
A weekly roundup of AI capital and business news. Capital: Anthropic's prospectus shows $4.6bn 2025 revenue and $518bn in compute commitments; Broadcom will lend Anthropic up to $42bn to lease chips; AMD acquires Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2bn in stock. Agents at work: Shopify Canvas builds a full store via chat in 20 minutes; ElevenLabs hits a $22bn valuation after a $300m employee tender with 15m+ agent conversations weekly; Instinct raised $1bn at $10bn, 4x its value a month ago.
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