Anthropic plans to lease a 16-story building in Lower Manhattan and double its NYC workforce to 1,000 people this year, as AI companies expand in the city (New York Times)

<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/nyregion/anthropic-ai-boom-nyc.html"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260707/i36.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260707/p36#a260707p36" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/nyregion/anthropic-ai-boom-nyc.html">Anthropic plans to lease a 16-story building in Lower Manhattan and double its NYC workforce to 1,000 people this year, as AI companies expand in the city</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company, plans to lease a 16-story building in Hudson Square and to double its work force in New York City to 1,000 people this year.</p>