Meta and Anthropic in Talks Over Data Center Deal Worth Up to $10 Billion

Meta is in early negotiations to lease a portion of its artificial-intelligence data center capacity to rival Anthropic in an arrangement that could be worth as much as $10 billion over two years, according to reporting from the Financial Times and The New York Times. The discussions, which have not resulted in a signed agreement, mark a striking realignment between two companies that compete directly on frontier AI models.