There’s a particular moment in a race where the person who’s been comfortably in front realises they’re not anymore. They don’t necessarily slow down. Someone else just got faster, and they were looking the wrong way when it happened.

That’s roughly where we are with ChatGPT and Claude.

The numbers doing the rounds this week are genuinely striking. Anthropic’s annualised revenue run rate hit $30 billion in early April, ahead of OpenAI’s $24 to $25 billion at the same point. More U.S. businesses paid for Claude than ChatGPT in April, apparently for the first time ever. Eight of the Fortune 10 are now Claude customers. That last one is the one I keep coming back to.

The tech world is buzzing with news that Oracle, the enterprise software giant, has been caught trying to sweep a serious data breach under the rug. Now the stolen data is up for sale, and their silence speaks volumes about corporate accountability – or rather, the lack thereof.

Working in DevOps, I’ve had my fair share of encounters with Oracle products, and this latest development doesn’t surprise me one bit. The company has built a reputation for being the playground bully of enterprise software, throwing its weight around with aggressive licensing terms and acquiring smaller companies only to suffocate their innovation.