WhatsApp Usernames, California Claude Deal, and Arena's $100M Revenue

API/서비스 | Tue Jun 30 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) | 3 sources

Meta, Anthropic, and Arena each announced new service launches, major contracts, and revenue growth news.

Analysis

[WhatsApp] opened pre-reservations for username feature ^[1]

• Enables conversations without phone numbers
• Provides option to link Instagram and Facebook usernames
• Controls message reception via optional username key
• Requires exact username knowledge as no directory is provided

[Anthropic] signed half-price Claude supply deal with California state government ^[2]

• Agreement with Governor Newsom
• Provides Claude to all state and local government agencies
• Includes training and support services
• Used for document writing and information analysis tasks

[Arena] reached $100 million in annualized revenue ^[3]

• Achievement just 8 months after launching commercial service
• Provides analytics for model labs and enterprises via AI Evaluations
• Built on over 10 million user evaluation data points
• Supports text
• coding
• vision
• and image evaluations including Agent Mode

Sources

• [1] It’s Time to Reserve Your WhatsApp Username - Meta AI Blog
• [2] Anthropic and Gov. Newsom forge deal allowing California government to use Claude at half price - TechCrunch AI
• [3] Arena, the AI leaderboard everyone uses, is now a $100M business - TechCrunch AI