Alphabet’s Google confirmed it will invest up to US$40.00 billion in AI startup Anthropic, starting with US$10.00 billion in cash and up to US$30.00 billion tied to performance milestones, while deepening cloud and chip supply commitments across its rapidly expanding AI infrastructure footprint. This large-scale Anthropic commitment, combined with rising AI-focused capex and new TPU chips, underlines how central enterprise AI and cloud workloads have become to Google’s long-term business...