Junk rating threatens Anthropic’s financing Anthropic is likely to receive a high‑grade junk rating from the major credit agencies after its recent IPO, according to a Financial Times report cited by TechCrunch.[^1][^…

The FT story notes that Blackstone’s forecast is a prediction, not a guarantee, but a junk rating would make it harder and more expensive for Anthropic to raise the capital needed to sustain its massive spending that …

For a company that relies on large‑scale compute clusters and aggressive hiring, the financing gap matters. Higher borrowing costs translate into tighter runway, which could force Anthropic to trim research budgets or…

Claude extensions infected thousands of devices A supply‑chain attack recently injected malicious code into Anthropic’s Claude extensions, spreading across thousands of devices used by developers. The tainted extensio…