Anthropic walks away from $6 billion Decart deal

Bloomberg reported on September 8, 2026 that Anthropic walked away from a roughly $6 billion acquisition of Israeli AI startup Decart after completing due diligence. The August talks targeted Decart's chip-efficiency software rather than its world models, at a premium to Decart's May valuation of about $4 billion. Both companies declined to comment; people familiar with the matter said they may still collaborate in other ways.