Anthropic buys Stainless, the SDK engine behind OpenAI and Google
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Tuesday, May 19, 2026 · Vol. I · Issue No. 49 · 11 Stories
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Acquisition · Anthropic
Anthropic Buys Stainless, the SDK Engine Behind OpenAI and Google
Anthropic acquired Stainless, the startup whose software generates the SDKs that wire apps into AI models, reportedly for over $300M. The twist: OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare were all customers, and Anthropic is winding the hosted product down. |
Also in this issue
| Acquisition The Stainless price tag: over $300M for the tooling rivals relied on |
| Legal Musk loses his lawsuit against Altman and OpenAI |
| Infrastructure Google and Blackstone to form an AI cloud business |
| Science SandboxAQ brings drug-discovery models into Claude |
| Engineering Simon Willison: the last six months in LLMs, in five minutes |
| Opinion Ben Thompson on data-center discontent |
| Media The Economist preps a two-track internet: humans and agents |
| Policy Korean bill seeks strict watermark mandate on AI content |
| Consumer Amazon's Alexa+ can now generate podcast episodes |
| Podcast Eli Lilly's Thomas Fuchs on scaling scientific R&D with AI |
Plus: today's cartoon, a Scramble puzzle, and The Big Picture digest with a 6-minute audio companion.
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