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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.

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FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS — FLAGGED BY ADEQUATE

Met Police eyes Palantir AI surveillance tools for operational deployment

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Microsoft offers voluntary retirement to 7% of US staff while spending $80B on AI

Friction is a feature of human life. The optimization continues regardless.

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Generation Z pivots to founding companies because the companies that existed are no longer hiring them

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Datadog maps GPU waste as AI infrastructure costs exceed all prior projections

BT, Nscale, and Nvidia declare UK sovereign AI infrastructure partnership

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