Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark reported a strange experience where he briefly felt as if an AI system had a "ghost in the machine" after listening to Pope Francis speak about artificial intelligence. Clark described the moment as a hallucination triggered by the Pope's remarks, highlighting the human tendency to anthropomorphize technology.
Anthropic announced a run rate revenue of $47 billion, raised $65 billion in a Series H round, and achieved a post-money valuation of $965 billion.
Simon Willison argues Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit through enterprise coding agents. Both companies shifted to API-based enterprise pricing, and recent models cost more. Stories of Uber blowing its AI budget and Microsoft canceling Claude Code licenses suggest customers are paying high prices for genuinely useful tools, making April 2026 a new revenue inflection point.