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Anthropic's Growth Is Slowing

Oct 15, 2026 · 21m

Summary

Host Brian McCullough covers Anthropic’s Q3 revenue of $16.8 billion and its upcoming IPO, noting slowing growth and distillation concerns. The episode also details the FBI arrest of an OpenAI engineer accused of espionage and Amazon’s launch of new Bee AI wearables for note-taking. Finally, early reviews praise NVIDIA’s RTX Spark chip for outperforming Apple’s M5 Max in local agentic AI benchmarks, signaling a shift toward on-device computing.

Topics discussed

Intro: Anthropic revenue, OpenAI arrest, Amazon AI wearables Sponsor: Vanguard Investor Choice Anthropic Q3 revenue, profitability, and IPO outlook OpenAI engineer arrested for espionage and security risks Sponsor: Scribe workflow documentation Sponsor: Cash App Bitcoin investment Amazon launches Bee Frontier and Eclipse AI wearables NVIDIA RTX Spark reviews: performance and pricing
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