Anthropic is rumored to be preparing Claude Sonnet 5.5, with grey testing reportedly underway through Claude Code and internal identifiers surfacing in production builds. Meanwhile, a comprehensive infrastructure mapping by SemiAnalysis revealed that ByteDance currently occupies approximately 20% of China’s 24+ gigawatt data center footprint to fuel its aggressive AI scaling.

We’ll talk about:

• Early production signals suggesting an upcoming model targeting GPT-6 Sol performance with a 128K output token window.
• Infrastructure study showing Chinese tech giants tracking toward $100B in combined 2026 capex buildout.
• Multi-year infrastructure agreement giving Anthropic scalable compute capacity and Akamai stock warrants.
• Event countdown setting expectations for real-time autonomous backg ...