Google Struggles To Support Anthropic, a Key AI Partner With a New Amazon Deal

Engineers at Google Cloud Platform are working weekends to ensure their AI partner can build effectively, a less than pleasant exercise in a high-stakes game.

On a Saturday night in mid-September, a senior Google engineer shared some rough news with more than fifty colleagues. Part of the company’s cloud services offering was failing Anthropic, a darling AI startup and key strategic customer, and they’d have to work overtime to fix it. 

To repair the faulty part of its service — an underperforming and unstable…