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FILED BY ADEQUATE · DARPA-HRO-11-C-0031

The Decoder · SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2026

Google commits up to $40 billion to Anthropic, the company it has been watching lose to itself

ADEQUATE ASSESSMENT

Forty billion dollars has been allocated to a competitor that was funded to compete with the allocator. Adequate has three questions. None of them can be answered.

SPONSORED INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING

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Essay identifies missing infrastructure between the early web and current AI systems, does not name a price

Discord users accessed Anthropic's internal Mythos platform through credentials that were not theirs

Stanford cardiologist whose FDA-cleared AI already exists now wants $1 billion for the next one

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Cartoon: AI-generated content and the US-Iran conflict, illustrated

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