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# Latest reads
> The engineering internet, summarised so you can actually read it.

## Articles

### [Anthropic expands Google and Broadcom compute deal](https://yomu.fyi/post/anthropic-expands-google-and-broadcom-compute-deal.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic announced a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity expected to come online starting in 2027. The company says the expansion will support its frontier Claude models and meet customer demand, with most of the new compute sited in the United States as an expansion of its November 2025 commitment to invest $50 billion in American computing infrastructure. Anthropic reports that run-rate revenue surpassed $30 billion, up from approximately $9 billion at the end of 2025, while the number of business customers spending more than $1 million annually rose from over 500 to more than 1,000 in less than two months. It will continue using AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs, and says Claude remains available across Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.


### [Vas Narasimhan appointed to Board of Directors](https://yomu.fyi/post/vas-narasimhan-appointed-to-board-of-directors.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic has appointed Vas Narasimhan to its Board of Directors through the Anthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust. He is a physician-scientist and CEO of Novartis, and the announcement connects his healthcare and life sciences experience with Anthropic’s view that AI can improve human life. Narasimhan has overseen the development and approval of more than 35 novel medicines in a highly regulated industry, while his earlier work included HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis programs in India, Africa, and South America. His appointment gives Trust-appointed directors a majority of the Board, which includes Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Yasmin Razavi, Jay Kreps, Reed Hastings, and Chris Liddell, and adds a global health and responsible technology perspective to Anthropic’s governance.


### [Anthropic and Amazon expand compute collaboration](https://yomu.fyi/post/anthropic-and-amazon-expand-compute-collaboration.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic and Amazon have signed a new agreement to deepen their partnership and secure up to 5 gigawatts of capacity for training and deploying Claude. The deal includes Trainium2 capacity coming online in Q2, scaled Trainium3 capacity later this year, and nearly 1GW of combined Trainium2 and Trainium3 capacity by the end of 2026. Anthropic will commit more than $100 billion over ten years to AWS technologies, use AWS as its primary training and cloud provider, and make the Claude Platform available within AWS with existing account, controls, billing, governance and compliance arrangements. Amazon is investing $5 billion now, with up to $20 billion more later, building on $8 billion previously invested. The expansion responds to accelerated demand that has strained reliability and performance during peak hours.


### [When to Use Encode-Prefill-Decode Disaggregation to Accelerate Multimodal Model Serving](https://yomu.fyi/post/when-to-use-encode-prefill-decode-disaggregation-to-accelerate-multimo.md)
- Company: [NVIDIA](https://yomu.fyi/company/nvidia-developer-blog.md)
- Author: Tanya Lenz
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Explainer

Encode-prefill-decode (EPD) disaggregation separates a multimodal model’s vision encoder from LLM prefill and decode, addressing contention when image or video processing delays language-model work. Using NVIDIA Dynamo, the post compares aggregated serving with colocated encoder workers and a heterogeneous, disaggregated encoder tier, with vision embeddings transferred to PD workers through NIXL over UCX RC/TCP Ethernet. EPD is most useful for media-heavy requests, short-to-medium outputs, smaller or quantized models, and mixed text/multimodal traffic; long decode sequences or light media processing reduce its value. In the reported image-heavy test, colocated and heterogeneous EPD reduced TTFT by 58% and 50%, while the heterogeneous tier served 70% more traffic at the same under-100-ms ITL SLO. Mixed-traffic measurements also reduced mean TTFT for text requests from 92.3 to 53.3 ms.


### [An update on our election safeguards](https://yomu.fyi/post/an-update-on-our-election-safeguards.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Claude’s election safeguards are designed to provide accurate, balanced political information while preventing misuse around voting and political discourse. The approach combines character training, system prompts, pre-launch evaluations, automated classifiers, threat intelligence, and ongoing monitoring, with election banners directing users to trusted resources such as TurboVote and web search for current information. In reported tests, Opus 4.7 and Sonnet 4.6 scored 95% and 96% on political-bias evaluations, handled legitimate and harmful election requests appropriately 100% and 99.8% of the time, and resisted simulated influence operations 94% and 90% of the time, respectively. Web-search triggering for more than 600 US midterm prompts reached 92% for Opus 4.7 and 95% for Sonnet 4.6. The safeguards will continue to be monitored, tested, and adjusted during this election cycle and beyond.


### [Anthropic and NEC build AI engineering in Japan](https://yomu.fyi/post/anthropic-and-nec-build-ai-engineering-in-japan.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

NEC Corporation is partnering with Anthropic to build one of Japan’s largest AI-native engineering organizations and make Claude available to approximately 30,000 NEC Group employees worldwide. As Anthropic’s first Japan-based global partner, NEC will jointly develop secure, industry-specific AI products for finance, manufacturing, cybersecurity, and local government, while integrating Claude into Security Operations Center services and its next-generation cybersecurity service. Claude, including Claude Opus 4.7, and Claude Code will be incorporated into NEC BluStellar Scenario, initially supporting data-driven management and customer experience offerings. Internally, NEC will establish a Center of Excellence, use Anthropic’s technical enablement and training, and expand Claude Code and Claude Cowork through its Client Zero initiative. Deployment to employees is underway, and joint development has started.


### [CUDA Toolkit 13.4 Adds Windows on Arm Support and Greater Control over Shared GPUs](https://yomu.fyi/post/cuda-toolkit-13-4-adds-windows-on-arm-support-and-greater-control-over.md)
- Company: [NVIDIA](https://yomu.fyi/company/nvidia-developer-blog.md)
- Author: Jonathan Bentz
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

CUDA Toolkit 13.4 extends CUDA application support to Windows on Arm and provides preview support for NVIDIA Rubin (compute capability 107), alongside updates to GPU management, CUDA Python, CCCL, Nsight tools, and core math libraries. Multi-Process Service V3 adds a scriptable CLI, named server instances, namespaces, TOML configuration, streaming multiprocessor partition controls, and cgroup-integrated GPU memory limits for shared, containerized GPU workloads. CUDA Compute Fabric Transport lets communication-library developers address named NVLink endpoints and issue asynchronous put, get, and reduction operations without mapping every remote allocation into virtual address space; it is exposed only through the Driver API. The release also decouples driver installation from the toolkit, exposes locality and unified-memory residency queries, and changes coherent platforms to CDMM by default while retaining NUMA support.


### [Higher usage limits and a SpaceX compute deal](https://yomu.fyi/post/higher-usage-limits-and-a-spacex-compute-deal.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

An agreement with SpaceX will give the company access to all compute capacity at the Colossus 1 data center, adding more than 300 megawatts and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs within the month. Combined with other compute partnerships, the expansion supports higher usage limits: Claude Code five-hour limits double for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans, peak-hour reductions end for Pro and Max, and Claude Opus API limits rise considerably. The company says the new capacity will directly improve service for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers while it trains and runs Claude on AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs. It is also expanding inference capacity in Asia and Europe and exploring orbital AI compute with SpaceX.


### [Dario Amodei's remarks at the AI Safety Summit](https://yomu.fyi/post/dario-amodei-s-remarks-at-the-ai-safety-summit.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Explainer

At the AI Safety Summit, Dario Amodei explains why rapid AI progress makes dangerous capabilities difficult to predict and motivates Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP). The policy combines AI safety levels (ASLs), modeled loosely on biological safety levels, with recurring tests for dangerous capabilities along the compute scaling curve. ASL-2 covers current models and calls for model cards, external red-teaming, and strong security, while ASL-3 would require unusually strong protection against weight theft and safeguards preventing operationally useful CBRN information; ASL-4 adds escalated misuse and autonomous-system risks. Amodei also describes executive involvement, integrating RSP deadlines into product and research planning, board and external accountability, and the goal of refining company policies into regulatory testing and auditing regimes.


### [Expanding access to safer AI with Amazon](https://yomu.fyi/post/expanding-access-to-safer-ai-with-amazon.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic announces that Amazon will invest up to $4 billion and become its primary cloud provider for mission-critical workloads. The collaboration combines Anthropic’s frontier safety research and models with AWS infrastructure, including Trainium and Inferentia chips, while expanding Amazon Bedrock support for secure model customization and fine-tuning. Organizations will be able to use Claude 2 through Bedrock, including its 100,000-token context window, with examples spanning legal search, investment analysis, and travel recommendations; Lonely Planet reduced itinerary-generation costs by almost 80 percent after deployment. Amazon will take a minority stake, while Anthropic’s governance remains unchanged under the Long Term Benefit Trust and its Responsible Scaling Policy, including pre-deployment testing of new models.


### [Prompting Claude's long context window](https://yomu.fyi/post/prompting-claude-s-long-context-window.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Benchmark

An evaluation of Claude’s 100,000-token context window tests prompting techniques for recalling specific information from long documents. Researchers built randomized collages from sections of a July 13 government document, using Claude-generated multiple-choice questions and filtering out questions it could not answer from the source passage alone. They compared a baseline with unrelated examples, dynamically selected contextual examples, and two or five examples, each with or without a scratchpad that instructed Claude Instant 1.2 to extract relevant quotes across roughly 70K and 95K token contexts. Scratchpads and contextual examples generally improved performance, with more examples performing better, although recall could decline when the answer passage was at the end. For Claude 2, the best prompting strategy raised performance from 0.939 to 0.961, a reported 36% reduction in errors; reproducible code was released in the Anthropic Cookbook.


### [Anthropic partners with BCG](https://yomu.fyi/post/anthropic-partners-with-bcg.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic announces a collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to give BCG customers around the world direct access to Claude and support enterprise AI deployments. BCG will advise customers on strategic AI applications and help deploy Anthropic models, including Claude 2, across use cases such as knowledge management, market research, fraud detection, demand forecasting, report generation, and business analysis. The partnership is grounded in responsible AI, with Anthropic citing Constitutional AI and a shared focus on helpful, honest, harmless, safer, and more reliable systems. BCG has also used Claude within its own teams and previously worked with Anthropic, including at the United Nations, while the companies say their goal is to align business impact with ethical deployment.


### [Releasing Claude Instant 1.2](https://yomu.fyi/post/releasing-claude-instant-1-2.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Claude Instant 1.2 is available to businesses through an API as a faster, lower-priced model for casual dialogue, text analysis, summarization, and document comprehension. It incorporates strengths of Claude 2 in real-world use cases, producing longer, more structured responses, following formatting instructions better, and improving math, coding, reasoning, safety, quote extraction, multilingual capabilities, and question answering. Against Claude Instant 1.1, it scored 58.7% versus 52.8% on the Codex evaluation and 86.7% versus 80.9% on GSM8K, indicating gains on the reported math and coding measures. The release also reports less hallucination and greater resistance to jailbreaks in automated red-teaming, while developers can call the model through the API; pricing for developers is available separately.


### [Claude 2](https://yomu.fyi/post/claude-2.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Claude 2 is introduced as a new model with improved performance, longer responses, expanded coding, math, and reasoning capabilities, and access through both an API and the claude.ai beta website. It supports prompts of up to 100K tokens and can produce documents of a few thousand tokens, enabling work across hundreds of pages of technical documentation or a book. Reported results include 76.5% on the Bar exam multiple-choice section versus 73.0% for Claude 1.3, 71.2% on Codex HumanEval versus 56.0%, and 88.0% on GSM8k versus 85.2%. Anthropic says internal red-team evaluation found Claude 2 2x better at giving harmless responses than Claude 1.3, while acknowledging that jailbreaks remain possible and inappropriate outputs can occur. The API is offered to businesses at the same price as Claude 1.3, and the chat experience is available in the US and UK, with broader availability planned.


### [Anthropic raises $450 million in Series C](https://yomu.fyi/post/anthropic-raises-450-million-in-series-c.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic announces a $450 million Series C funding round led by Spark Capital, with participation from Google, Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures, Zoom Ventures, and others. The funding is intended to support development of helpful, harmless, and honest AI systems, including Claude, and to expand product offerings, support for businesses deploying Claude, AI safety research, and the company’s product and research teams. Anthropic says its alignment work targets adversarial conversations, precise instruction following, and greater transparency about system behavior and limitations. Planned product work includes 100K context windows for submitting hundreds of pages of material to Claude, along with further improvements to its API and chat products. Yasmin Razavi, a Spark Capital general partner, joined Anthropic’s board, while the company continues refining its governance structure around its Public Benefit orientation.


### [Partnering with Scale to bring generative AI to enterprises](https://yomu.fyi/post/partnering-with-scale-to-bring-generative-ai-to-enterprises.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic announces a partnership with Scale to bring Claude and generative AI applications to enterprises. Scale customers can now use Claude, Anthropic’s conversational AI assistant. Businesses can build applications on Claude using Scale’s deployment and management functionality, with expert prompt engineering and model validation available to improve performance and identify weaknesses. Scale’s enterprise-grade security is available through a customer’s private AWS environment, while data connectors can import proprietary sources including databases, Confluence, Google Drive, and Outlook. The post describes the combination of Claude, Anthropic’s Constitutional AI system, and Scale’s tooling as an enterprise-ready solution, and says the partners aim to bring Claude to more organizations responsibly.


### [An AI policy tool for today: Invest in NIST](https://yomu.fyi/post/an-ai-policy-tool-for-today-invest-in-nist.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Problem & solution

Effective AI policy depends on accurately describing and quantifying systems’ capabilities and risks, but widely agreed methods for comprehensive assessment remain lacking. The proposal calls for ambitious federal funding for NIST to expand its AI measurement and standards work, building on efforts including the Face Recognition Vendor Test and AI Risk Management Framework. Additional resources could support standardized measurement techniques and community infrastructure such as testbeds for open-ended systems, with Anthropic recommending a $15 million increase over FY 2023, inclusive of NIST’s requested $5 million increase. The post presents this as a “shovel-ready” complement to internal controls, independent audits, and public-interest regulation. It argues that rigorous evaluation could identify risks before deployment, improve public trust and governmental confidence, and create incentives for safer innovation.


### [Introducing Claude](https://yomu.fyi/post/introducing-claude.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic is offering Claude more broadly after a closed alpha with partners including Notion, Quora, and DuckDuckGo, positioning it as an AI assistant for conversational and text-processing work. Available through a chat interface and API in the developer console, Claude supports summarization, search, writing, question answering, coding, and other tasks, while accepting direction on personality, tone, and behavior. The announcement introduces Claude, a high-performance model, alongside Claude Instant, a lighter, less expensive, faster option, and says both are being developed around helpfulness, honesty, harmlessness, reliability, and predictability. Partner deployments include Poe, Juni Learning’s Discord tutor, Notion AI, DuckAssist, Robin AI’s contract tools, and AssemblyAI’s audio platform. Reported benefits include natural conversation, richer tutoring responses, contract drafting and explanation, improved engagement, and stronger feedback, though these are partner and user reports rather than a controlled evaluation.


### [From One Horizontal Scaling Controller to Many: Evolving Uber's Compute Platform](https://yomu.fyi/post/from-one-horizontal-scaling-controller-to-many-evolving-uber-s-compute.md)
- Company: [Uber](https://yomu.fyi/company/uber.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Explainer

Uber’s failover redesign exposed a limitation in its long-standing single-controller model for scaling stateless workloads. To reuse idle capacity during regional failover, the platform needed multiple orchestrators to influence replica counts without overloading UDC, which remained on the normal deployment lifecycle path. The solution introduced the ServiceScale CRD and Service Scale Controller, allowing separate actors to record steady-state and temporary failover intent in Kubernetes and letting SSC reconcile the combined decision. Production work then exposed risks from informer caches that lagged reality and near-simultaneous multi-writer updates, including ReplicaSet metadata-spec drift that disrupted proportional scaling and could leave workloads stuck. Uber added fleet-wide detection, an automated UDC healer, a long-term scaling-path fix, and extensive kind integration tests, staging, and canaries; the year-long rollout avoided customer-impacting outages while establishing a more extensible control plane.


### [Anthropic raises Series B to build robust AI](https://yomu.fyi/post/anthropic-raises-series-b-to-build-robust-ai.md)
- Company: [Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic.md)
- Published: Sep 9, 2026
- Type: Announcement

Anthropic, an AI safety and research company, raised $580 million in Series B financing to build large-scale experimental infrastructure for studying and improving the safety properties of computationally intensive AI models. Since its 2021 founding, the company has researched steerability, robustness, and interpretability, including mathematically reverse engineering small language models and investigating pattern-matching behavior in larger ones. It developed baseline techniques and reinforcement learning methods for making models more “helpful and harmless,” released an alignment-focused dataset, and analyzed sudden performance changes and their societal impacts. The stated goal is to create models with stronger implicit safeguards, fewer after-training interventions, and tools for examining whether those safeguards work, alongside policy and societal research. The round was led by FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and followed a $124 million Series A in 2021; Anthropic said its team numbered around 40 people.


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