WHITE HOUSE OFFICIAL: DOUBTS PREVAIL IN THE WHITE HOUSE, AND TRUMP NOW BELIEVES THAT OPENING THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS UNLIKELY ANYTIME SOON

Anthropic agreed a multiyear deal with CoreWeave to rent US data center capacity to meet rising AI demand and support its Claude models. The capacity will use multiple Nvidia chip architectures; financial terms were undisclosed. Anthropic, alongside OpenAI, has faced outages amid “unprecedented demand” and is expanding compute, including a $50 billion US data center commitment. Valued at $380 billion, it recently raised $30 billion. It also partnered with Broadcom and Alphabet’s Google for 3.5 gigawatts of power.

China’s commerce ministry said the country’s goods trade performed well in January–February, with both scale and growth at historically strong levels for the period. A trade official added that first-quarter import and export data are expected to deliver a “good start” to the year, according to preliminary estimates.