{"slug": "executives-of-the-year-rahul-patil", "title": "Executives of the Year: Rahul Patil", "summary": "Rahul Patil, named Anthropic's chief technology officer in October 2025, is managing Claude's reliability as more than 1,000 businesses spend upwards of $1 million annually on the model and Anthropic's annualized revenue climbed from $9 billion in late 2025 to reportedly more than $65 billion by late July. Anthropic acknowledged the growth has sometimes strained Claude's performance, especially during peak hours, and the company reported in September disrupting research involving its models that could have potentially informed the development of biological weapons. This fall Anthropic will roll out Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, an automated safety system letting organizations monitor their teams' usage data, including misuse, on their own cloud infrastructure; \"Enterprises shouldn't have to choose between the most capable AI, control over their data, and safety,\" Patil said.", "body_md": "Over 1,000 businesses now spend upwards of $1 million annually on Claude usage. Rahul Patil’s job is making sure it’s a tool they can depend on. Named Anthropic’s chief technology officer in October 2025, his challenge has been keeping pace with extraordinary demand. Anthropic’s annualized revenue has risen from $9 billion in late 2025 to reportedly more than $65 billion by late July. That growth, Anthropic admits, has sometimes strained Claude’s performance, especially during peak hours.\n\nPatil is no stranger to keeping critical systems online, having spent the past half decade at digital payment giant Stripe. At Anthropic, he must contend with new challenges, like thwarting misuse of increasingly powerful AI systems without burdening customers. In September, Anthropic [reported disrupting research involving its models that could have potentially informed the development of biological weapons](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/us/politics/anthropic-ai-biological-weapons.html). This fall, Anthropic will also roll out Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, an automated safety system that will allow organizations to monitor their teams’ usage data, including any instances of misuse, on their own cloud infrastructure. “Enterprises shouldn’t have to choose between the most capable AI, control over their data, and safety,” Patil says.\n\n*Disclosure: Investors in Anthropic include Salesforce, where TIME owner and co-chair Marc Benioff is CEO.*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/executives-of-the-year-rahul-patil", "canonical_source": "https://time.com/collection/executives-of-the-year-tech-data/2026/rahul-patil/", "published_at": "2026-09-22 13:01:02+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-22 13:28:15.385899+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-safety", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Rahul Patil", "Claude", "Stripe", "Enterprise Frontier Safeguards", "Salesforce", "Marc Benioff", "TIME"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/executives-of-the-year-rahul-patil", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/executives-of-the-year-rahul-patil.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/executives-of-the-year-rahul-patil.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/executives-of-the-year-rahul-patil.jsonld"}}