also before court cases for defamation. Two cases in Germany hold Google executives responsible for false claims (by the Google AI) of sexual crime claims against an innocent man.

or counting the $1.5 trillion in debt the big AI players are hiding in subsidiaries

glorified autocorrect and plagiarism/nonatribition.

Grok is very creative.

Imagine being that deep in a hole and then trying to get an IPO invested. Thing is, it's all about investment. The corporate world has thrown themselves at AI to be the next best thing to cut labor and make THEIR numbers look better, so they're going to hold it up as long as they can now.

Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026, WSJ reports October 20, 2026 3:41 PM EDT Updated 51 mins ago

Oct 20 (Reuters) - Anthropic reported a net loss of more than $80 billion in the first half of the year and signaled it could spend as much as $750 billion in ​the coming years to secure more computing capacity, the Wall Street ‌Journal reported on Tuesday.

The loss, up from $13 billion a year earlier, was driven by $72 billion in accounting charges tied to changes in the value of financial instruments Anthropic issued to raise money, the ​report said, citing a draft prospectus for its IPO.

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The figures show the hefty costs ​of the AI race even as investors look harder at whether the money ⁠companies are pouring into chips and data centers will pay off.

Anthropic's revenue jumped ​to $16.3 billion in the six months ended June 30 from $1.1 billion a year ago, while AI ​infrastructure spending nearly quadrupled to almost $9 billion, the Journal said.

Anthropic did not respond to a request for comment and Reuters could not immediately verify the report.

ANTHROPIC'S IPO VALUATION UNDER SCRUTINY

Reuters reported first ​in September that Anthropic posted a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, as part of a ​series of exclusives from its IPO prospectus. The company has benefited from the popularity of Claude Code, ‌its ⁠coding assistant that developers use to write software and build apps.

But some current investors and prospective investors who attended Anthropic's investor day last week are weighing a lower valuation for the AI company after its latest financial disclosures, four people familiar ​with the matter had ​told Reuters.

The investors ⁠who attended the event in San Francisco discussed a valuation of around $1.5 trillion, three of the people had said, a significant step ​down from the roughly $2 trillion valuation previously expected for the November share ​sale.

Anthropic told ⁠investors at the meeting that its third-quarter revenue jumped 45% to $16.8 billion from the previous quarter, and that it was profitable on an adjusted basis during the quarter.

A cooler reception ⁠for Anthropic's ​IPO could weigh on the wider AI market, ​whose near-term prospects investors see as hinging largely on the share sale's success, ahead of rival OpenAI's potential listing ​next year.

Reporting by Aditya Soni and Jaspreet Singh in Bengaluru; Editing by Sahal Muhammed

The full article isn't very long like a handful of paragraphs. TL;DR they lost $72 billion in Q3 despite revenue going up a lot. Same year same quarter was just $13 billion in net loss

https://periscope.corsfix.com/?https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-recorded-net-loss-over-80-billion-first-half-this-year-wsj-reports-2026-10-20/

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You could try putting the link https://wallhop.io/

(It doesn't work for all sites, but I've had a decent success rate.)

huh, I didn't realize it had a paywall because Brave shows it just fine here...

Yes, look up Ed ZItron on Youtube. He'll be talking about it by Friday at the latest if I know him.