[AI DAILY NEWS RUNDOWN] The Inference Squeeze: OpenAI’s IPO Pivot and Anthropic’s Surge Pricing (March 30 2026 – Part I)

• It’s surge pricing for chatbots: This is essentially the same thing Uber does for ride costs during rush hour. But instead of changing more money, Anthropic is trying to change user behavior to spread out the requests made to Claude.

• Most users won’t be impacted: If all you do is use Claude to ask questions and help create documents, then this move is good for you, as it will likely increase Claude’s uptime and performance for those tasks.

• Peak hours cost more per action: Before this change, 1 prompt used 1 unit of your Claude usage budget, and the cost stayed the same all day. Now, during peak hours, 1 prompt might equal 1.5 to 2 units (Anthropic hasn’t said what the exact formula will be).

The move doesn’t come as a surprise, since Claude’s growth has been so meteoric in such a short time. It’s no secret how expensive it is to run chatbots and how hard it is for these companies to obtain the GPUs and compute necessary to grow. A report from consumer transactions analysis company Indagari and analyzed by TechCrunch (see chart below), shows Claude’s paid users skyrocketed in the first two months of 2026.

Reddit, Wikipedia fight AI while feeding it

Wikipedia and Reddit built their reputations on human-curated content. In the age of AI, both platforms are fighting to stay human-first.

On Wednesday, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman emphasized the company’s mission to keep humans at the center, keeping Reddit a place where “people can talk to people.” In the Reddit post, Huffman included plans to prevent confusion between AI-written and human-written content.

The biggest change is that any accounts that use automation for allowed tasks, also known as “good-bots,” will be clearly labeled as “[App],” signalling to users that they are interacting with a machine instead of a human. Other changes include:

• Removal of bots: “Bad bots” or nefarious bot content will continue to be removed before users see it. At the moment, that’s about 100K accounts per day, according to Huffman.

• Human verification: Reddit may occasionally ask users to verify they’re human if content appears AI-generated, though this will be rare and focused on humanity rather than identity.

• Reporting: Users will be able to report suspicious content more easily.

Huffman also acknowledged that many people use AI to write, so Reddit isn’t curbing all AI-generated content. Overall, the comments were positive, with Reddit users celebrating that it would remain human first.

Reddit’s announcement followed a similar decree from Wikipedia, which last week enacted a new policy prohibiting the use of large language models to generate or rewrite article content. At most, editors may use it for copyediting or translation.

These changes come as demand for human-created content rises and the lines between authentic and machine-generated content become increasingly blurred.

Reddit’s web traffic has continued its upward trajectory, with SimilarWeb data showing approximately 12% year-over-year growth in February. Wikipedia has not seen a similar boost as Reddit in the AI era, with traffic declining 8.8% year over year in February, according to Similiarweb data.

An emphasis on human content could help both platforms yield more immediate gains with readers, according to Joseph Levi, co-founder and CEO of Noise Media, who is exploring how to make brands stand out in the age of AI.

“For Reddit and Wikipedia, cracking down on AI-generated content is ultimately about protecting trust, and trust is what underpins their value in both SEO and AI discovery,” said Levi. “Search engines and AI tools increasingly reward credible, distinctive, human-informed content, so preserving that standard is likely to strengthen their authority over time.”

Both companies currently have deals with AI companies to train on their data, making their positions on AI-generated content all the more nebulous. Wikimedia Enterprise has deals with Amazon, Meta, Google and Perplexity, and Reddit has a long-standing partnership with Google.

Keeping bots off platforms helps preserve their integrity, but there’s an obvious paradox: Licensing that same data to AI companies to train their models only fuels the very problem they’re trying to solve.

Codex gets plugins as OpenAI goes enterprise

Another day, another coding tool upgrade, this time from OpenAI.

On Thursday, OpenAI began rolling out plugins in its agentic coding platform, Codex. OpenAI describes plugins as “installable bundles for reusable Codex workflow” that can contain skills, apps, and MCP servers, with more components coming soon.

Simply put, plugins let users integrate ready-made workflows or app integrations, such as Google Drive, GitHub or Slack, into their Codex workspace. These plugins, created by OpenAI, are available in the Codex directory, but users can also create their own plugins or import them from another ecosystem.

Beyond expanding what users can do in Codex, plugins also streamline processes and make it easier to share setups across projects or teams. These advantages will likely boost developer productivity, but the real appeal is that Claude Code users have had access to this for a while, underscoring OpenAI’s recent push to capture a larger enterprise audience.

That push appears tied to a larger goal: preparing for a possible IPO, something CFO Sarah Friar acknowledged directly when pressed on the topic.

“Over the long run, look, we have to build a company that’s ready to be a public company, ” Friar told CNBC.

Part of that effort means cutting costs and leaning into more lucrative opportunities, such as enterprise.

This week, OpenAI announced the shutdown of its Sora generative AI video platform and app, just six months after launch, and, as a result, ended its $1 billion content partnership with Disney. Separately, the Financial Times reported that OpenAI was “indefinitely” putting on hold its ChatGPT “adult mode,” which was supposed to allow users to create erotic content.

Friar added that the enterprise business is “a very profitable business at scale, and that’s how we will build a sustainable business model.” Currently, 60% of OpenAI’s revenue comes from consumers and 40% from enterprise, but Friar expects that to reach a 50-50 split by year’s end.

Anthropic is the clearest example of the success that comes from enterprise businesses, as the company has focused on enterprise offerings, and as a result, roughly 80% of its revenue comes from enterprises, according to CEO Dario Amodei.

Anthropic accidentally leaks ‘Mythos’ AI details

Details of Anthropic’s next flagship AI, Claude Mythos, surfaced this week after the company’s CMS left launch materials in an unsecured data store, with the leaked blog calling it ‘a step change’ and Anthropic’s most capable system to date.

The details:

• A CMS configuration error left thousands of unpublished assets, including a draft blog post about the model, in a publicly accessible data cache.

• The draft placed Mythos in a new “Capybara” tier that would sit above its Opus class, both larger and more expensive to run.

• Anthropic flagged the model as “currently far ahead of any other AI model in cyber capabilities” and warned it could help hackers outpace defenders.

• Anthropic confirmed to Fortune that a “new general purpose model with meaningful advances in reasoning, coding, and cybersecurity” is being tested.

Why it matters: A safety-focused AI lab ‘accidentally’ leaving its most powerful model’s launch plans in a public data store has a similar vibe to OpenAI’s Q*-era leaks, where conveniently timed rumors doubled as free hype. Accidental or not, a new model tier above Opus sounds like another major next step up the frontier ladder.

The personal war behind OpenAI and Anthropic

Image source: India AI Impact Summit

The WSJ just laid out the personal grudges, power struggles, and broken promises between Sam Altman and Dario Amodei that trace back to an SF group house in 2016, with the fallout shaping the rivalry between the two AI leaders.

The details:

• Dario (2016-2020) and Daniela Amodei (2018-2020) worked at OAI prior to Anthropic, with the WSJ detailing early issues with co-founder Greg Brockman.

• Brockman reportedly once floated selling AGI to UN Security Council nuclear powers, a proposal Dario considered ‘tantamount to treason.’

• The WSJ also reported that Altman accused the Amodeis of plotting against him to the board in a private meeting, then denied it when confronted.

• Amodei privately likened Altman/Musk suit to Hitler vs. Stalin, called Brockman’s pro-Trump PAC donation ‘evil’, and compared OAI to Big Tobacco.

Why it matters: Kudos to the WSJ for these nuggets that paint a much deeper picture of the decade-long drama between Amodei and Altman. The grudges are entertaining, but they’re also steering the trajectory of two of the most important AI companies — with impacts that ripple through much more than just a personal rivalry.

Nicolas Carlini (67.2k citations on Google Scholar) says Claude is a better security researcher than him, made $3.7 million from exploiting smart contracts, and found vulnerabilities in Linux and Ghost

The Linux exploit is especially interesting because it was introduced in 2003 and was never found until now. It’s also a major security issue because it allows attackers to steal the admin key. It was a buffer overflow error, which are so hard to do that Carlini has never done it before.

He also says he expects LLMs to only get better overtime, which is likely true if Mythos lives up to the rumors.

here are his Wikipedia and Google Scholar pages in case you doubt his credibility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Carlini

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=carlini&btnG=

Anthropic CEO: “ I have engineers within anthropic who don’t write any code, they just let Claude write the code and they edit it and look it over”

“At anthropic writing code means designing the next version of Claude it self, so we essentially have Claude designing the next version of Claude itself, not completely but most of it”.

In the last 52 days, the Claude team dropped 50+ major feature launches.

This is literally INSANE.

and you are here opposing coding with ai

What Else Happened in AI on March 30th 2026?

Sam Altman reportedly told OAI staff he tried to “save” Anthropic during its Pentagon standoff, per Slack messages seen by Axios — even as OpenAI locked in its own deal.

xAI’s Ross Nordeen reportedly departed the company this week, who was the last remaining of the original 11 co-founders at the startup besides Elon Musk.

Pharma giant Eli Lilly entered a $2.75B deal with Hong Kong’s Insilico Medicine to license its AI-discovered drug pipeline, with 28 compounds already in development.

Anthropic won a federal injunction blocking the Trump administration’s supply-chain-risk designation, with the judge calling it “classic illegal First Amendment retaliation.”

Google expanded the rollout of its Live Translate feature to iOS, turning any pair of headphones into a real-time interpreter across 70+ languages.

Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited [LINK]

Big tech was embracing clean energy and turning a corner on climate change. Then AI data centers arrived. [LINK]

AI is denying health care claims [https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/healthcare/2026/03/30/ai-is-denying-health-care-claims/88221783007/]