Initial public offerings for OpenAI and Anthropic stand to unlock an estimated $430 billion in charity pledges, rivaling the gifts of American tycoons during the Gilded Age. With the companies’ looming IPOs estimated to generate more than $1 trillion each,

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged over the weekend that the public doesn't trust AI. He said AI companies have overpromised and undersold.

Amodei’s comments came in response to investor Gavin Baker, who argued — both on the All-In podcast and on X — that Amodei’s warnings about the dangers of AI have helped to fuel a backlash in the United States, particularly against data centers .

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argues that open-weight AI alone cannot decentralize power while advanced chips and compute remain concentrated.

Anthropic posts the first profitable quarter for a frontier AI lab, booking $11.5B in Q2 revenue and signaling a shift in AI economics.

Fidji Simo, an ex-OpenAI executive and cofounder of ChronicleBio, said AI needs the right data infrastructure to be able to cure all diseases.

Open-weight AI is taking more production volume at low cost, testing whether OpenAI and Anthropic can protect the margins behind huge valuations.

ReliaQuest, the leading AI cybersecurity company behind GreyMatter, today announced a number of new AI initiatives with Anthropic, the AI safety company and creator of the Claude family of models to accelerate the development and deployment of AI for enterprise cyber defense.

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