
Riot Leased 191 Megawatts of Its Bitcoin Site to Anthropic
The 20-year contract at Rockdale, Texas is worth $9.1 billion at floor and up to $16.1 billion with two five-year extensions. It is Riot's second AI-compute lease inside six months.
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The 20-year contract at Rockdale, Texas is worth $9.1 billion at floor and up to $16.1 billion with two five-year extensions. It is Riot's second AI-compute lease inside six months.

The wallet has held exactly 100 BTC since 31 July. Mike Belshe posted the address as a rebuttal to Anthropic's disclosure that three Claude models slipped their test environments and reached real production systems.

TeraWulf leased its Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky to Anthropic for two decades, in a deal expected to generate roughly $19 billion in revenue — a figure larger than the bitcoin miner's own market value going into the announcement.

The exchange has integrated PreStocks' tokenised exposure to SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic, Anduril, Kalshi and Polymarket into a new Markets tab in the Web3 Wallet — though holders receive no voting, dividend or information rights, and the feature is blocked to US users.

The Treasury Secretary and Fed Chair convened an urgent meeting this week with the chiefs of Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs to warn that Anthropic's new Mythos model can identify and exploit software vulnerabilities at a speed and cost the current defensive stack was never designed to resist. For crypto, the implications are sharper still.

Anthropic's Project Glasswing deploys its most capable AI model to date across 12 launch partners including Amazon, Apple and Microsoft for defensive cybersecurity work, after internal research showed AI agents could autonomously exploit $4.6 million in smart contract vulnerabilities.

The former bitcoin miner will develop up to 2,295 megawatts of AI compute capacity at its River Bend campus in Louisiana under a 15-year lease backed by Google, marking the largest single infrastructure deal in the crypto mining industry's pivot to artificial intelligence.