Your AI's rival is now its landlord

Even Rivals Share the Grid

Yesterday I showed you Anthropic is printing money...

$10.9 billion in revenue, first profit, racing to an IPO.

Here's the plot twist that dropped right after.

To keep growing that fast, Anthropic reportedly just became a customer of... Meta.

Yes. That Meta.

Mark Zuckerberg has more AI compute than even HE can use right now...

So he's renting the excess out.

And his first big customer looks to be one of his direct competitors. 😳

Sit with how strange that is.

Anthropic and Meta are fighting for the same developers, the same deals, the same future.

And Anthropic is now paying Meta rent to run its models.

This is the story of AI in 2026 that nobody saw coming...

The bottleneck stopped being talent.

It stopped being algorithms.

It's COMPUTE. Raw processing power.

There isn't enough of it on Earth right now, at any price...

So the biggest players have quietly stopped being pure rivals.

They're becoming each other's landlords and tenants, because the alternative is not growing at all.

Here's the read-through for YOUR business, and it's the same lesson turned up to 11...

Anthropic is profitable, valued at $180 billion, and headed for an IPO.

If even THEY can't get enough compute to go it alone...

Neither can you.

Which is exactly why "own your whole stack, depend on nobody" is a fantasy for most of us.

The smart move isn't independence.

It's smart DEPENDENCE...

Multiple providers, mapped fallbacks, and never being so locked into one that their outage becomes your emergency.

Even the giants are hedging their bets now.

Copy the giants. 🫡

Did You Know?

During the 2011 flood in Thailand, factories making hard drives got wiped out...

And the price of storage doubled worldwide for over a year.

It hit companies that had nothing to do with Thailand.

One choke point, one shortage, global ripples.

Compute is today's hard drive.

The whole industry is bidding on the same scarce thing. 💾

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Three more that moved:

1. Patreon started BLOCKING AI scrapers.

Not "politely asking" in a footer...

Actively blocking the bots.

The message for anyone building on user content is clear.

Scraping policy is now part of the product, not the fine print.

Your original content keeps getting more valuable and more defended. 🛡️

2. Databricks hit a $188 BILLION valuation.

The "second act" AI companies are where the money's quietly pooling.

The ones selling infrastructure, not chatbots.

Reminder: in a gold rush, sell shovels.

3. A hidden perk worth real money 💰

If you pay for Super Grok Heavy...

Check this.

Word is it now bundles a Cursor Ultra account with its own separate usage allowance.

Meaning you might be paying for a premium coding tool you already own for free.

Go audit what your subscriptions actually include before you buy another one.

Half of you are double-paying and don't know it.

⏰ And your countdown... 13 days left on Sonnet 5's intro pricing

Over to You...

Go map a backup for your most critical AI tool today...

If Anthropic needs a plan B, so do you. 🔥

Jeff J. Hunter 

Founder, AI Persona Method | TheTip.ai

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