Top stories today:

1. Anthropic reportedly in talks to raise at $30B - $40B
2. Telegram to share users’ IPs, phone numbers with governments
3. Sam Altman predicts “superintelligence in a few thousand days”
4. Cloudflare launches tools to help analyze, control AI scrapping
5. U.S. has top 4 startup cities, China has 3 out of top 10

0. Data and calendar

1. Anthropic reportedly in talks to raise at $30B - $40B, ~2x from its last valuation

• Talks are said to be early about the new funding round.

• 50x its projected $800M ARR.

• $7B raised over the last year by Anthropic.

• Anthropic archrival OpenAI is reportedly raising $6.5B at a $150B valuation.

2. Telegram to share users’ IP addresses, phone numbers with governments

• Less than 1 month after his arrest in France.

• New Terms of Service: “If Telegram receives a valid order from the relevant judicial authorities that confirms you're a suspect in a case involving criminal activities that violate the Telegram Terms of Service, we will perform a legal analysis of the request and may disclose your IP address and phone number to the relevant authorities.”

• “Problematic content” in search results on the app will now be concealed.

• Recently, Telegram disabled new media uploads to stop bots.

• Durov, once known for lax moderation, is bowing down after his arrest.

• Relatedly, TikTok has removed Russian-linked accounts, calling them “covert influence operations.”

4. Sam Altman predicts “superintelligence in a few thousand days”