[Mining Company Riot Closes Up 4.33%, Signs $9.1 Billion AI Computing Power Deal with Anthropic Yesterday] BlockBeats News, August 12, according to BIT (bit.com) market data, Bitcoin mining company Riot Platforms closed up 4.33% on Tuesday, with an additional 0.54% gain in after-hours trading, bringing its stock price to $20.35. Yesterday, Anthropic and Riot reached a $9.1 billion AI computing power agreement to meet the growing computational demands of Claude users. Riot will provide 191MW of computing power to an AI developer at its Rockdale campus in Texas under a 20-year contract. Sources familiar with the matter revealed that the client is Anthropic. Riot, which previously focused on Bitcoin mining, is now shifting toward AI and cloud computing infrastructure businesses, following the trend of several other crypto mining companies.