April 7 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories in

the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories

and does not vouch for their accuracy.

- Anthropic is planning to invest $200 million in a new

venture with major private-equity firms that aims to sell AI

tools to their portfolio companies, continuing a push for

business customers.

- Broadcom ( AVGO ) will develop and supply custom

artificial-intelligence chips for Google and

additional computing capacity to Anthropic in an expansion of

the strategic collaboration between the three companies.

- Amazon ( AMZN ) and the U.S. Postal Service have reached a

new package-handling agreement, reducing Amazon's ( AMZN ) package volume

by 20%.

- The Trump administration will raise payments to Medicare

insurers by 2.48% next year, a dramatic increase after a

preliminary proposal holding the line on payments drew fierce

criticism from the industry and torpedoed shares of the largest

companies.

(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)