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Anthropic → unnamed vendor(s) — purchased compute capacity (services)

$125.2B — Reuters, in a report carried by CNBC on 1 October 2026, stated that Anthropic has made a USD 125.2 billion commitment for a five-year lease of tensor processing unit (TPU) computing capacity, about a third of which a convertible note from Broadcom could finance; the report does not name the lessor. (paid to unnamed vendors/contractors — this source doesn't disclose who specifically got the money)

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$125.2B — Reuters, in a report carried by CNBC on 1 October 2026, stated that Anthropic has made a USD 125.2 billion commitment for a five-year lease of tensor processing unit (TPU) computing capacity, about a third of which a convertible note from Broadcom could finance; the report does not name the lessor. (paid to unnamed vendors/contractors — this source doesn't disclose who specifically got the money)

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$125.2B — Reuters, in a report carried by CNBC on 1 October 2026, stated that Anthropic has made a USD 125.2 billion commitment for a five-year lease of tensor processing unit (TPU) computing capacity, about a third of which a convertible note from Broadcom could finance; the report does not name the lessor. (paid to unnamed vendors/contractors — this source doesn't disclose who specifically got the money)

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