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Riot Platforms signs a $9 billion AI compute agreement with Anthropic, marking a definitive pivot from Bitcoin mining to hosted AI infrastructure.

Validates the economic superiority of AI hosting over crypto mining and accelerates industry-wide capacity conversion.
Trade pressSlicast · August 17, 2026 · US · Source: Google News
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Riot Platforms signs a $9 billion AI compute agreement with Anthropic, marking a definitive pivot from Bitcoin mining to hosted AI infrastructure.

Validates the economic superiority of AI hosting over crypto mining and accelerates industry-wide capacity conversion.

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