# The Emergency Compute Fix: What Amazon Spends $25 Billion on in Anthropic

- slug: the-emergency-compute-fix-what-amazon-spends-25-billion-on-in-anthropic
- date: 2026-04-22
- category: Artificial Intelligence

Anthropic quietly lowered Claude's effort level in March. A reporter ran the same query at both settings and timed the results. The investment Amazon just pledged is the fix for what that test found.

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