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September 24, 2026

Anthropic: We're not trying to eat startups' lunch

The frontier lab held an event for London's startups yesterday

Anthropic is not out to eat founders' lunch, the AI lab's head of EMEA startups told a room of 250 of them in London yesterday morning.

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Maya Dharampal-Hornby

Maya Dharampal-Hornby is a reporter, covering UK tech for Sifted, based in London. She's also the producer of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast .

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