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The Enterprise Trap: Anthropic’s Amazon-Style Playbook for AI Dependency

The recent S-1 filing by Anthropic for its initial public offering provides a rare window into how the artificial intelligence industry plans to move from novelty to necessity. The documents reveal that the company is successfully implementing a strategy designed to maximize 'stickiness'—a corporate euphemism for making it difficult for customers to leave. According to the filing, more than half of Anthropic's high-value customers, those paying over $100,000, are now integrated into both the Claude Platform and a first-party application.

· 2026-10-26

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How OpenAI works with distribution partners to uphold consistent safeguards, support responsible access, and clarify expectations in our Usage Policies.

OpenAI News · 2026-10-21

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AI adoption by industry shows what other sectors can learn

The current narrative around artificial intelligence in the workplace is largely driven by Silicon Valley. But treating the tech sector as an island misses the actual trends in technology adoption–tech is just the first industry in line. As generative AI and automation tools…

MIT Technology Review AI · 2026-10-20

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Making the internet better for AI agents might make it worse for everyone else

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Until recently, you could divide internet users into just two categories: bots and people. Websites have long allowed bots to perform…

MIT Technology Review AI · 2026-10-19

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