Anthropic Raises $65 Billion in Series H Funding at $965 Billion Post-Money Valuation Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company known for its large language model Claude, has secured $65 billion in Series H funding, bringing its post-money valuation to an astonishing $965 billion. The funding round was led by major venture capital firms including Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, with additional participation from a broad array of institutional investors and hyperscalers. The round marks a significant milestone in the company’s rapid growth and its efforts to scale its AI capabilities globally. The funding will be directed toward advancing safety and interpretability research, expanding computational infrastructure to meet rising demand for Claude, and scaling products and partnerships that underpin its enterprise operations. Global enterprises across diverse industries have increasingly integrated Claude into their core workflows, with adoption continuing to grow since the company’s Series G funding round in February. The company reported that its run-rate revenue surpassed $47 billion earlier this month, underscoring the robust demand for its AI tools. Krishna Rao, Anthropic’s Chief Financial Officer, emphasized the critical role of Claude in supporting its expanding customer base. “Claude is increasingly indispensable to our growing global community of customers,” Rao stated. “This funding will help us serve the historic demand we are experiencing, stay at the research frontier, and bring Claude to more of the places where work happens.” The investment also aims to enhance tools like Claude Code and Cowork, making them more adaptable to user needs and more powerful for professional applications.#anthropic #claire #krishna_rao #brad_gerstner #marc_stad
Bengal: EC exempts SSC officials from Assembly election duty The Election Commission of India has exempted officials of the School Service Commission (SSC) from participating in Assembly election-related duties, ensuring the ongoing teacher recruitment process in Bengal is not disrupted. This decision came after the SSC, which was managing the recruitment of teachers and non-teaching staff for classes 9 to 12, faced a staffing crisis due to the deployment of 24 of its employees for polling work. The move was announced on April 1, following a legal battle that had been ongoing since March 25. The SSC had approached the Calcutta High Court, seeking relief from the Election Commission’s directive to deploy its staff for election duties. The commission had initially assigned 24 SSC officials as polling officers on March 1, leaving only 11 staff members to handle the recruitment process. The SSC’s lawyer argued that this shortage would make it impossible to meet the Supreme Court’s deadline of August 31, 2026, to complete the recruitment of 25,753 teachers and non-teaching workers whose jobs had been canceled in April 2025 due to a corruption scandal. The SSC had previously requested the bench of Justice Krishna Rao of the Calcutta High Court to recognize its autonomy and assert that its staff could not be diverted for election work. The commission had stated that 35 employees of the SSC were handling both its administrative tasks and the recruitment process. However, the deployment of 24 of them for polling duties left only 11 staff to manage the recruitment, which included conducting interviews for thousands of positions. The Supreme Court had ordered the SSC to restart the recruitment process after invalidating the previous appointments, which were deemed corrupt.#supreme_court_of_india #election_commission_of_india #calcutta_high_court #school_service_commission #krishna_rao
