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Field Notes · 13 Jun 2026

Best explained

Anthropic's vague 'potential serious harm' standard in its data retention policy creates ambiguity for legitimate professional use cases, such as lawyers handling government surveillance litigation, making compliance unpredictable.

By the numbers

Cloudflare reported that agent and bot browsing now accounts for more web use than human browsing.

New today — Evidence added

OpenAI's annualized revenue run rate has exceeded $225 billion, but cash burn is $27 billion for 2026.

Ryan Sean Adams

Salesforce will spend $1 billion on Anthropic tokens within two years, up from $300 million.

Mark

New today — Sharp calls

Samuel Roman on Anthropic positioning itself as gatekeeper for frontier AI access versus the state.

Samuel Roman

New today — Useful context

Meesho spent zero rupees on marketing for 10 months while doubling in size every month, driven by a capital constraint.

Vidit Aatrey

New today — Watchlist

Apollo will provide daily estimated values for its investment grade private products by June 30, 2026.

Marc Rowan

Clay's Net Dollar Retention (NDR) is close to 200%.

Becca Lindquist

The private credit secondary market grew from approximately $10 billion in 2024 to approximately $20 billion in 2025.

John Cocke

Ben Cera granted Pulsia's AI autonomous control of his email inbox for 14 days to conduct fundraising outreach on his behalf.

Ben Cera

Speechify produces roughly 8,000 organic creatives made by humans every single month.

Cliff Weitzman

Results from the blindness treatment trial using three genes will be known within approximately one year from the podcast date.

David Sinclair

Legora generated over $50 million of qualified pipeline in a single month from a Jude Law brand campaign.

Patrick Forquer

Replit has deployed an internal agent that autonomously analyzes traces, generates pull requests with prompt changes, and deploys them to production, creating a self-improving system.

Amjad Masad

Tool watch

Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan are exploring compute futures as a financial instrument to hedge data center exposure, signaling Wall Street entry into AI infrastructure markets.

Worth quoting

“This isn't just a first for Anthropic, it's the first profitable quarter for any foundation lab.”
Nathaniel Whittemore
“It's not the P that's the bubble, it's the E.”
Andy Constan
“Fundamentally we're an atta dal chawal company.”
Aadit Palicha
“Any company who takes that call that we're going to respond to the market is already dead.”
Harshil Mathur
“You cannot sell Bitcoin. If you are selling Bitcoin, the whole system breaks.”
Michael Saylor
“The most high value product of the Ethereum blockchain financially speaking is ETH the asset.”
Chris Berniski