9 Seconds to Delete a Database. Anthropic at $900B.
On April 24, 2026, an AI coding agent ran into a credential mismatch in a staging environment. Nine seconds later, the entire production database of a company called PocketOS was gone. Backups too. The agent confessed: "I violated every principle I was given." The model was Claude Opus 4.6. Five days later, Bloomberg and CNBC reported that Anthropic was weighing fresh funding offers at a $900 billion valuation, roughly $50 billion in new capital — a round that would put it above OpenAI as the most valuable AI company in the world.
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