A lab moves to buy a company to squeeze more inference from existing silicon

Claim

Anthropic is in talks to buy Decart for $6 billion to squeeze more inference from existing silicon, as Cerebras raised its outlook on a $20 billion compute pact and Nebius grew revenue 454%.

Reported metric: $6B / +454%

Reporting date: 2026-08-13 (not necessarily the event date)

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