Edition No. 102 · Fri 2 Oct 2026 · Story 17 of 51

Google and Amazon are the reason for Anthropic's eye-watering $42 billion loss

Forbes

The loss is largely a bookkeeping charge from marking up shares promised to Google and Amazon as Anthropic nears a reported $2 trillion valuation.

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