Anthropic’s $30 trillion fantasy
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A lot of people (not me) are bothered by the just-reported fact that Anthropic has sometimes asked prospective employees whether they are comfortable with the possibility that the price of the company stock could potentially crash to zero.
But whatever Anthropic may ask employees, they certainly seem to have other plans. Big plans:
How crazy is that? These two tweets give some context:
and, in slightly more detail, making clear who will be left holding the bag:
And of course it’s not just retail investors who will likely be left holding the bag, but pension funds, too.
Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, Thomson Reuters has become the latest company to pull back on its Claude usage.
The race between fantasy and reality continues.




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