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“Anthropic reacende entusiasmo na inteligência artificial”, destaca analista da ActivTrades

28 October 2026 at 12:50
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A divulgação do prospeto S-1, documento que antecede a entrada em bolsa, pela Anthropic, que detém o modelo Claude, na segunda-feira 28 de outubro, está a “reacender o entusiasmo” em torno da inteligência artificial (IA), afirma o analista da ActivTrades, Henrique Valente.

Este entusiasmo está refletido no avanço em 126 pontos do índice bolsista norte-americano Nasdaq na manhã desta quarta-feira 28 de outubro, adianta. “A publicação do prospeto S-1 da Anthropic, em preparação para a sua entrada em bolsa, ajudou a reacender o entusiasmo em torno da inteligência artificial, também alimentado por novos anúncios de financiamento e pelos resultados dos fabricantes de semicondutores”, referiu o analista.

No prospeto, a Anthropic revela que vai entrar em bolsa através do índice bolsista Nasdaq, com o símbolo ANT. Também foi divulgado que a empresa teve um prejuízo de 80,7 mil milhões de dólares (72,4 mil milhões de euros) nos primeiros seis meses do ano, quase o dobro face ao prejuízo de 41,9 mil milhões de dólares (37,6 mil milhões de euros) registado em 2025.

“A nossa receita foi de 16,3 mil milhões de dólares (14,6 mil milhões de euros) nos seis meses findos em 30 de junho de 2026, um aumento em relação aos 1,2 mil milhões de dólares (mil milhões de euros) registados nos seis meses findos em 30 de junho de 2025. O nosso prejuízo operacional foi de 693 milhões de dólares (622,3 milhões de euros) nos seis meses findos em 30 de junho de 2026, uma redução em relação aos 2,1 mil milhões de dólares (1,8 mil milhões de euros) registados nos seis meses findos em 30 de junho de 2025”, assinalou.

O documento mostra ainda que no final de setembro a empresa detentora do Claude tinha mais de 11.900 clientes com um volume de negócios igual ou superior a 100.000 dólares (89 mil euros) nos últimos doze meses, face aos mais de 950 do período homólogo. “Além disso, à medida que os clientes incorporam o Claude nos seus fluxos de trabalho mais críticos e iniciativas de crescimento, muitos expandem rapidamente as suas implementações para níveis de faturação mais elevados. Em 30 de setembro de 2026, tínhamos mais de 1.900 clientes com um volume de negócios igual ou superior a um milhão de dólares (900 mil euros) nos últimos doze meses e aproximadamente 250 clientes com um volume de negócios igual ou superior a 10 milhões de dólares (8,9 milhões de euros) nos últimos doze meses”, acrescentou.

A empresa explicou que este crescimento nos clientes é justificado pelo cada vez maior das soluções da Anthropic. “O valor que o Claude oferece aos clientes contribuiu para a nossa taxa de retenção de receitas líquidas de aproximadamente 900% em 30 de setembro de 2026”, assinalou. Foi ainda revelado que a receita aumentou 1.368% em termos homólogos nos três meses que acabaram em 30 de junho de 2026, enquanto que as despesas de computação e infraestruturas aumentaram 300% no mesmo período temporal.

O entusiasmo nos mercados de capital com a Anthropic espalhou-se a outras regiões. “Na Ásia, a SK Hynix e a Samsung Electronics chegaram a subir cerca de 8% esta manhã (28 de outubro). Na Europa, a ASML ganhou 2,8% na sessão de ontem (27 de outubro). Nos Estados Unidos, a Broadcom avançou 4% e a CoreWeave valorizou 7,9%, enquanto o Nasdaq Composite terminou a sessão [de 27 de outubro] com uma subida de aproximadamente 1,2%”, descreveu o analista da ActivTrades Europe.

Agora o foco está na reunião da Reserva Federal norte-americana (Fed), marcada para esta quarta-feira 28 de outubro, onde se decidirá o caminho das taxas de juro, acrescentou. “A expectativa dominante é de manutenção das taxas de juro no intervalo de 3,75% a 4,00%, após a subida de setembro. Sem atualização do dot plot nesta reunião, o foco estará no comunicado e na conferência de imprensa de Kevin Warsh, às 18h30. Perante a relutância do presidente da Fed em dar indicações explícitas sobre a trajetória futura das taxas de juro, os investidores procurarão sobretudo perceber se a pausa poderá prolongar-se ou se a persistência da inflação deixa aberta a porta a uma nova subida em dezembro”, conclui Henrique Valente.

Britain's ex-prime minister is paid up to $10,000 an hour advising Anthropic, Microsoft, and Goldman

28 October 2026 at 11:30
Rishi Sunak, former UK prime minister, during the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in New Delhi, India, on Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2026. The New Economy Forum is being organized by Bloomberg Media Group, a division of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News. Photographer: Prakash Singh/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Rishi Sunak was prime minister of the UK from 2022 to 2024.

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  • Rishi Sunak has senior advisor roles with Anthropic, Microsoft, and Goldman Sachs.
  • Sunak, who was the UK's prime minister between 2022 and 2024, makes up to $10,000 an hour from them.
  • Goldman paid him about $1.5 million, compared with Anthropic shares valued at about $500,000.

How much is Anthropic paying for the advice of the UK's former prime minister? A lot less than Microsoft.

Rishi Sunak, who led the country from 2022 to 2024, last year took on senior advisor roles with Anthropic, Microsoft, and Goldman Sachs.

As he still serves as a member of Parliament, the payments are detailed in a public register of MPs' financial interests. The most recent register, published Monday, shows Sunak earned more than £2.2 million, or over $2.9 million, from the three jobs.

Sunak, who started his career as a Goldman analyst before completing an MBA at Stanford, donated these earnings to charity. He and his wife Akshata Murthy set up The Richmond Project, which works to improve people's numeracy skills.

The couple is jointly worth about $750 million, according to The Sunday Times Rich List, with much of that wealth coming from Murthy, whose father founded Indian tech firm Infosys.

Anthropic hired Sunak as a senior advisor last October, paying him with equity in the AI firm. The register shows the shares were worth £373,000, or $495,000, when his one-year contract began.

Working an estimated 70 hours a year, that translates to about $7,000 an hour.

Also last October, Sunak started advising Microsoft. The tech giant paid him £741,735 a year, or almost $1 million. For an estimated 96 hours of work, per the register, that works out to about $10,200 an hour.

Sunak's role with Goldman is the most lucrative. He was paid nearly £1.1 million a year, or about $1.5 million.

The register shows the role involves an estimated 175 hours of work a year, suggesting he earns about $8,300 an hour.

Alongside his work in tech, Sunak writes a column for The Sunday Times. He also donates this money to charity, but it pales in comparison to the income from his other jobs. The register shows he earns £28,500 a quarter for five hours of work a week — about $580 an hour.

Sunak's office did not immediately reply to a request for comment.

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Anthropic manager says the 'coding interview is dead' — here's his advice for junior developers

28 October 2026 at 10:56
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Anthropic engineering manager Felix Rieseberg says coding tests are obsolete in the AI era.

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  • An Anthropic manager says Claude has made traditional coding interviews a poor hiring signal.
  • His advice to juniors: target business problems and build a focused prototype over a weekend.
  • Google and Amazon are also reshaping engineering work and hiring around AI fluency and impact.

Out with the coding test, in with Claude.

That's the shift Felix Rieseberg, an Anthropic engineering manager, says he has made to his team's hiring process, arguing that AI has rendered traditional coding interviews a poor measure of who will succeed at work.

"The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic," Rieseberg wrote in a Tuesday post on X. "I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal."

Rieseberg elaborated in a blog post, writing that there's "no point" in giving candidates coding challenges or asking them about programming languages like assembly.

"Claude is now better at both," he said of the company's own AI model.

Coding challenges were once a "weak but useful" predictor of success, Rieseberg said, but the most impactful builders on his teams are not necessarily the people who excel at such tests.

"I'm seeing engineers who are comparatively new fly past people who are probably better coders and have been around much longer," he wrote. "Hunger beats tenure."

AI is writing most of the code at Anthropic, and the shift tracks with changes underway at other Big Tech companies. Business Insider's Hugh Langley reported last week that Google is expanding pilots for software-engineering interviews that allow candidates to use Gemini to assess their AI fluency and prompting skills.

Amazon, meanwhile, told engineers on Tuesday to prioritize customer and business outcomes over raw AI usage. The company calls the moment the era of the "Renaissance Developer," in which human judgment and machine intelligence combine to build products faster.

How junior engineers can stand out

The rise of AI coding tools has fueled fears that junior developer roles will become harder to get, as AI takes on work like debugging and building simple features — tasks that once helped early-career engineers learn the ropes.

In his blog, Rieseberg shared advice for junior engineers — or, more broadly, people without organizational status or power. Rather than just clearing backlog tickets, he said they should identify the business problems their company is trying to solve.

Then, they should come up with a bold idea that could materially advance those goals and build a working prototype over a weekend. The project should communicate one compelling idea, he said, rather than bury several good ones inside an overly ambitious product.

The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month.

I have a spicy, optimistic take - I think there's an opportunity for junior engineers: https://t.co/PVvpQCbQtK

— Felix Rieseberg (@felixrieseberg) October 27, 2026

Newer engineers should also lean into their outsider perspective. They may be more likely to spot broken user experiences or question ingrained assumptions about what is possible, Rieseberg said.

He pointed to two relatively new Anthropic engineers who built a graphical interface for Claude Code over a weekend; the first public version shipped around eight days later.

Rieseberg said he has not yet solved the problem of how to assess candidates who build effectively with AI.

For now, he said he is scanning resumes and portfolios for small prototypes that show "taste, empathy, and principled thinking" — qualities that AI researchers and tech leaders are increasingly putting a premium on in the age of AI.

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Quem controla a IA? A Anthropic tem um plano a longo prazo

28 October 2026 at 07:10

Poucas empresas de capital aberto afirmam ter o futuro da humanidade em jogo enquanto tomam decisões corriqueiras sobre a composição de seu conselho.

Não é o caso da Anthropic. Tendo alertado que sua inteligência artificial poderia um dia curar o câncer ou matar até 8 bilhões de pessoas, a Anthropic estabeleceu um plano complexo sobre quem poderá governar a empresa à medida que sua tecnologia avança rapidamente, conforme revelou seu pedido de IPO na segunda-feira.

A expectativa é que a startup seja avaliada em US$ 1,5 trilhão, o que a tornaria a empresa de benefício público mais valiosa do mundo. Segundo a legislação de Delaware, essa estrutura exige que o laboratório de IA equilibre os interesses dos investidores com a promoção de um bem maior.

Mais do que detalhes técnicos, a estrutura da Anthropic pode ter grandes implicações para investidores e para o público que adota cada vez mais a IA da empresa sediada em São Francisco. Os detalhes mostram como a desenvolvedora se isolou da pressão dos investidores para poder seguir o que considera ser o melhor para a humanidade.

A Anthropic concedeu 50,1% do poder de voto em determinadas questões aos seus sete cofundadores, que, segundo o documento, estão “distintamente capacitados para serem gestores da nossa missão”, conforme relatado anteriormente pela Reuters.

Embora um fundo independente controle a maioria das cadeiras do conselho, o poder de voto dos cofundadores se estenderá às eleições dos demais diretores e às propostas dos acionistas em geral.

O documento apresentado na segunda-feira revelou ainda mais complexidades na gestão de um negócio que a Anthropic espera que sobreviva à equipe unida que o criou.

Assim que a maioria dos cofundadores deixar o cargo e suas ações com direito a voto múltiplo “Classe F” forem vendidas, o conselho da Anthropic se dividirá em três grupos de tamanho semelhante, com mandatos de três anos.

Ao adotar um sistema de reeleição de diretores semelhante ao do Senado dos EUA, a Anthropic adotou uma estrutura que já foi popular como forma de impedir aquisições hostis. A empresa há muito expressa preocupação com os riscos de a IA cair em mãos autoritárias ou nefastas.

Essa estrutura também contraria algumas tendências de governança corporativa. Neste século, as principais empresas americanas passaram a eleger todos os seus diretores anualmente, se tornando mais receptivas às demandas dos acionistas em áreas como remuneração de executivos ou estratégia.

A Anthropic se recusou a comentar.

Flexibilidade a longo prazo

Além do seu conselho administrativo, a Anthropic possui outro órgão de governança com seu próprio conjunto de regras: seu fundo fiduciário de benefícios de longo prazo.

Atualmente presidido pelo líder global em saúde Neil “Buddy” Shah, o fundo controla uma classe especial de ações chamada “Classe T”, que lhe permite eleger a maioria do conselho da Anthropic. A desenvolvedora também já considerou o que aconteceria se essas ações deixassem de existir.

O objetivo de tais eventualidades é “preservar a flexibilidade a longo prazo caso as circunstâncias mudem”, afirmou a empresa em seu documento. Mesmo que alguém não vinculado à missão da Anthropic de beneficiar a humanidade adquira suas ações Classe T, a estrutura exigiria que os diretores seguissem “disposições relacionadas ao nosso propósito de benefício público”.

Em última análise, o poder do fundo sobre o conselho faz da Anthropic uma “empresa controlada” segundo as regras da Nasdaq, se isentando de cumprir alguns requisitos típicos, como ter um comitê independente de nomeação e governança corporativa. A Anthropic está usando essa isenção para colocar Daniela Amodei, presidente e irmã do CEO Dario Amodei, nesse comitê.

Os líderes no comando da Anthropic

A Anthropic também criou um comitê de segurança e risco em seu conselho, atualmente composto pelo CEO da Novartis, Vas Narasimhan, e pelo ex-funcionário da Casa Branca de Trump, Chris Liddell. O bilionário Reed Hastings, cofundador da Netflix, é o atual diretor independente principal da Anthropic.

Ainda assim, os sete cofundadores da Anthropic — incluindo os irmãos Amodei — permanecem no centro da governança num futuro próximo. Isso se deve, em parte, à existência de uma entidade chamada “Founder LLC”, que, depois do fundo fiduciário, terá a maior influência nas eleições do conselho.

Hacking & Blackmail: 6 Risks Anthropic Flags in Its IPO Documents

27 October 2026 at 18:04

Anthropic, the AI startup known for its Claude chatbot and its doomer CEO Dario Amodei, has filed for an IPO that could value the company at up to $2 trillion. The company's IPO filing devotes nearly 100 pages to the dangers its own technology could pose.

The post Hacking & Blackmail: 6 Risks Anthropic Flags in Its IPO Documents appeared first on Breitbart.

Anthropic says risks for investors include blowback from runaway AI

The risks laid out by the San Francisco company in its filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission range from the mundane to involvement in cyberattacks and the spread of dangerous misinformation.

The feds seized a stake in Anthropic from Sam Bankman-Fried's friends. What happened to the shares?

27 October 2026 at 18:20
Sam Bankman-Fried photo collage featuring Anthropic's Claude logo
Two associates of Sam Bankman-Fried invested in Anthropic. After they were sentenced for fraud, their shares entered a legal black hole.

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  • Sam Bankman-Fried's Anthropic stake was liquidated in bankruptcy court two years ago.
  • The feds seized shares belonging to two co-conspirators, Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh.
  • The government quietly sold those Anthropic shares last year. It's unclear where the money will go.

A little over a year ago, the federal government acquired a stake in Anthropic without paying a penny.

The shares were seized from associates of the crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried. From there, they disappeared into a legal black hole.

As Anthropic rockets toward what could be the biggest IPO in history, those shares could now be worth billions of dollars.

Bankman-Fried's own Anthropic stake was liquidated in the bankruptcy of his failed cryptocurrency exchange. The Anthropic equity owned by Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh, two associates who invested alongside him, took a different path. The government seized those shares and sold them to existing Anthropic shareholders, according to a person familiar with the sale.

It's still unclear whether the proceeds will be paid out to victims of the $11 billion fraud case, or if the feds will just keep the money.

It also remains a mystery which investors bought Singh's and Ellison's stock and how much they paid, but Anthropic shares have been on such a dizzying climb that it's likely those investors made a killing on them.

Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 on fraud and money laundering charges and sentenced to 25 years in prison after the collapse of his cryptocurrency empire. Prosecutors said he used his crypto hedge fund, Alameda Research, to siphon billions of dollars from customers of FTX, his crypto exchange.

The story of the crypto criminals' Anthropic shares is a tale with extraordinary elements, including one of the biggest financial frauds in modern history, a messy bankruptcy docket, and a company that experienced one of the fastest appreciations in business history as the world suddenly realized AI's existential importance.

An intelligent investment

Bankman-Fried, Singh, and Ellison each invested in Anthropic's 2022 Series B funding round. Bankman-Fried bought $500 million worth, which according to court records represented 13.56% of Anthropic at the time. Singh acquired $40 million in shares, and Ellison acquired $10 million in shares, court records reviewed by Business Insider show.

The artificial intelligence company's valuation has soared over the past four years. On the secondary market, Anthropic has been valued at $1.5 trillion. It is the most valuable private company in the world, according to Crunchbase.

The Anthropic shares purchased by Singh and Ellison could together be worth between $4.17 billion and $5.03 billion today, based on the $965 billion valuation the company announced this May, according to Olav Sorenson, who teaches venture capital strategy at UCLA. Harrison Rolfes, an analyst at PitchBook, put the combined figure at $2.62 billion. If Anthropic went public at a $2 trillion valuation, the shares would be worth about $5.44 billion, Rolfes said.

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Among Sam Bankman-Fried's many investments was a sizable stake in Anthropic, the AI company that has since soared in value.

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Four of Bankman-Fried's close friends and executives at his companies pleaded guilty as co-conspirators. Three of them, including Singh and Ellison, testified against him.

Ellison was the CEO of Alameda Research, which traded and invested funds that belonged to FTX depositors. She was also Bankman-Fried's on-and-off romantic partner. Singh, an FTX executive and early employee, misrepresented the exchange's revenue to investors.

After the collapse of FTX, Bankman-Fried's Anthropic shares — which were owned by Clifton Bay, an entity affiliated with Alameda Research — ended up in bankruptcy court along with the other dredged-up remains of his companies. His Anthropic shares were liquidated to pay FTX's creditors.

The estate in 2024 sold Bankman-Fried's Anthropic shares to a few dozen buyers for a total of $1.3 billion, more than double what he paid. The largest stake went to an entity affiliated with a United Arab Emirates sovereign wealth fund, bankruptcy court filings show.

The feds take a stake in Anthropic

As part of their sentences, a judge required Singh and Ellison to forfeit their Anthropic shares, which prosecutors said could be considered proceeds of their crimes.

At Singh's sentencing hearing, one of his attorneys, Andrew Goldstein, said Singh purchased his shares before participating in the criminal conspiracy and "he actually may have had a legitimate legal claim" to the shares but agreed to give them up as part of his plea agreement "because it was the right thing to do."

Reached for comment for this story, Goldstein told Business Insider that Singh hopes the government is able to quickly distribute proceeds of the sale to FTX victims. An attorney for Ellison declined to comment.

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Nishad Singh was required to give up his shares of Anthropic as part of his sentence.

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A federal judge ordered Ellison's and Singh's Anthropic shares to be transferred to the federal government, which took ownership of Ellison's shares in February 2025 and Singh's in April of that year, according to previously unreported court records.

Ordinarily, victims of crimes are compensated through a restitution process, which is overseen by courts. But the number of potential FTX victims could be in the millions, prosecutors said in court filings. As a result, the judge ruled, victim compensation would be handled through a process called remission, which is overseen by the Justice Department.

During Ellison's sentencing hearing, Justice Department prosecutors told the judge that the DOJ would either set up its own claims administration process to compensate victims, or work with the FTX bankruptcy process to identify victims and provide forfeited funds to them.

At the time, FTX's bankruptcy process was in full swing. A Delaware court appointed Sullivan & Cromwell, the elite Wall Street law firm, to untangle the company's assets, figure out who was owed money, and pay them.

The creditors in the FTX bankruptcy, prosecutors noted, largely overlapped with FTX's victims. They were generally depositors, lenders, and investors who were defrauded by Bankman-Fried and other executives. Prosecutors said the Justice Department could work with the bankruptcy estate's lawyers to get money back to them, as it had in previous large-scale financial frauds such as Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

There was an unusual twist that set the FTX bankruptcy apart. Bankman-Fried's investments — especially the Anthropic shares, along with some cryptocurrency — had grown substantially in value since FTX's collapse. Earlier in 2024, the Sullivan & Cromwell lawyers who'd taken over FTX projected that all the creditors would be repaid in full, with interest.

The Marshals take control

While prosecutors said they intended to use Singh's and Ellison's Anthropic shares for remission, the Justice Department could technically do whatever it wanted with them, according to Duncan Levin, a white-collar defense attorney who teaches a course on forfeiture at Harvard Law School.

"It's a very opaque process," he said. "It's completely at the discretion, by law, of the attorney general of the United States."

Typically, when the feds seize shares of private companies through criminal asset forfeiture, they send the shares to the US Marshals Service Complex Assets Unit for liquidation. The unit tries to value the shares as any other investor would, said Michael Bachner, a white-collar criminal and securities litigation attorney.

"They may look to: What would an institutional purchaser pay for these securities?" Bachner said. "Are there funds that are valuing the securities? Is there a secondary market already out there?"

For the sale of the Anthropic shares, timing was crucial. The Marshals Service is supposed to preserve as much value as possible, Bachner said. By the time the feds got hold of the shares, Anthropic had become an economy-shifting AI giant. In its March 2025 Series E fundraising round, Anthropic was worth $61.5 billion. By its Series G round at the start of 2026, it was worth $380 billion.

At the same time, each fundraising round diluted the Series B shares. The FTX estate told the bankruptcy court that Bankman-Fried's shares, which in 2022 represented 13.56% of Anthropic, represented 7.84% of the AI company in January 2024.

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Sunil Kavuri, a victim of Sam Bankman-Fried who has advocated for FTX creditors, said it would be "diabolical" for the government to hold onto the proceeds.

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The Marshals Service sold Singh's and Ellison's shares to existing Anthropic investors sometime last year, according to the person with knowledge of the sale.

It's not clear when exactly the agency sold the shares, to which investors, how those investors were chosen, at what price the shares were sold, or how much money the government made in the sale. Depending on when they were sold in 2025, the combined shares could have been worth between $300 million and $1.1 billion, according to Sorenson, the UCLA professor. Rolfes, the PitchBook analyst, estimated a range between $250 million and $630 million, depending on the timing.

The Marshals Service declined to comment. A representative for the Justice Department said information about asset sales and victim compensation is confidential.

The revenue from the sale of Singh's and Ellison's Anthropic shares doesn't appear to have been transferred to the FTX estate as of the end of June this year, according to bankruptcy court filings from the estate, which continues to compensate victims and creditors.

The FTX estate received $638 million last year from assets seized by the Justice Department, according to the estate's annual report for 2025. It's not clear from the filings where those funds came from. The estate expects to receive about $400 million more from the government at some point in the future, according to the annual report. That would include proceeds from cryptocurrency and other investments made by Bankman-Fried.

One of Bankman-Fried's victims, Sunil Kavuri, told Business Insider that the Justice Department should use the proceeds of Ellison's and Singh's Anthropic shares to compensate victims. It would be "diabolical" for the government to hold onto the proceeds, he said.

Victims haven't actually been made whole, he said, because the bankruptcy court calculated the losses of FTX depositors using the time of FTX's bankruptcy declaration, when crypto prices were at a low ebb. Kavuri previously argued in bankruptcy court that the FTX estate should have held on to its Anthropic shares for longer to take advantage of the company's swift growth.

Representatives for the FTX estate declined to comment. The Justice Department spokesperson said the matter was ongoing, and that the DOJ "prioritizes victim compensation from forfeiture and takes all steps to ensure forfeited funds are provided to victims."

The government could end up just keeping the money, Bachner said.

"They've invested millions and millions and millions of dollars in prosecuting Bankman-Fried. And they want to get at least reimbursed for their costs, so sometimes they'll do that," he said. "It's really a unilateral government decision."

Jack Newsham and Katie Roof contributed reporting for this story.

Correction: August 31, 2026 — An earlier version of this story misstated the number of co-conspirators who testified against Sam Bankman-Fried. It was three.

Update: August 31, 2026 — This story has been updated to reflect Singh's role in the FTX fraud case.

Correction: October 27, 2026 — FTX bankruptcy court filings don't make clear where the Justice Department obtained the $638 million it transferred to the estate. A previous version of this story mischaracterized the filings.

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The secret succession rankings that Anthropic shareholders will never see (unless the company is ordered)

27 October 2026 at 17:15
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is among the cofounders who can propose a confidential list of successors to inherit their power and membership in the Founders LLC, which has voting control.

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  • Anthropic's IPO paperwork shows the AI giant has some unusual approaches to governance.
  • One of those is an agreement with a separate entity, Anthropic Founders LLC, controlled by seven of its cofounders.
  • Those seven cofounders, including CEO Dario Amodei, can submit a secret list of successors to inherit their voting power.

Anthropic has devised an unusual way for its founders to pass on their power.

In its IPO filings, Anthropic outlined how seven of its cofounders, who collectively have 50.1% of voting control, will be able to create a ranked list of who they'd like to inherit their power in the event of their death or incapacitation.

What's particularly notable is that while the names would be shared with the other LLC members and Anthropic's Nominating Committee, they are otherwise contractually confidential and generally not public.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Anthropic President Daniela Amodei, and the five other LLC members will review and vote on whether to approve their fellow founders' proposed successors, but the names will likely never be seen by other shareholders. (The agreement allows for the publication only in narrow circumstances, such as a court order or other legal requirement.)

Under the agreement, which was first highlighted by Forbes, each member of the Founders LLC may name up to 10 potential successors, ranked in order of preference. The other LLC members must then vote to approve the secret lists.

While succession plans are not unusual, Anthropic's approach is unusual in how it ranks potential successors. It also underscores how, thanks to the Founders LLC, Anthropic's leaders will be able to maintain control as shareholders begin to offer input post-IPO.

Facebook's 2012 IPO paperwork suggested that if Mark Zuckerberg were in control of the company at the time of his death, then control could be transferred to someone he designated. (Meta has since tweaked this plan.) In 2020, Airbnb's three cofounders agreed to transfer their voting power to their other cofounders if one of them died or became disabled, but that arrangement (which still exists) only lasts for nine months.

The succession plan does not establish CEO succession. Anthropic's board of directors would handle such a chief executive appointment.

There are also some limitations to who the Anthropic founders can name on their lists.

Eight of their 10 potential successors are subject to eligibility requirements, including that the person named is a current or former employee of Anthropic or one of its subsidiaries, or has worked for "a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization or a national or international organization whose primary purpose is research, education, or the promotion of public benefit." In either case, the person must have worked there for at least three years.

If the person worked for Anthropic, they must have held a specific role, such as a member of the technical staff or the company's internal think tank, or another role approved by the board and a majority of the other members. If they worked outside Anthropic, they must have held a senior role at the nonprofit. These successors must also be US citizens, have permanent residency, or have valid work authorization.

The other two names, if a founder names all 10 potential successors, are not subject to the eligibility requirements, but they must also receive the required approval.

The succession plan doesn't last forever.

Under the agreement, a successor member generally would cease to be a member on the 10th anniversary of Anthropic's IPO. After that point, successor designees may be admitted only in limited circumstances during a transition period.

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Anthropic has 7 cofounders. Dario and Daniela Amodei say one trait is key to making that work.

27 October 2026 at 12:18
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Dario and Daniela Amodei broke down how they manage having seven cofounders.

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  • Dario and Daniela Amodei said trust is key to operating Anthropic with seven cofounders.
  • Operating with honesty and in good faith makes it easier to disagree, Dario Amodei said.
  • Anthropic's S-1 filing outlined how the cofounders will steer the company after it goes public.

Many people told Dario and Daniela Amodei that starting Anthropic with seven cofounders was a terrible idea.

Yet, more than five years later, the duo said that setup is crucial to their success. The siblings made the comments in an episode of the podcast The Builders, released on Tuesday and recorded in July.

"They all have equal stakes in the company, and they all carry the vision. We have inherent trust in all of them," Dario Amodei, the CEO, said.

He said later in the episode that mutual trust is crucial to resolving his frequent disagreements with other cofounders on high-stakes questions, like what safeguards to apply to a model and how to lobby for regulations.

"These are all good-faith disagreements, but they always get resolved because there's always trust that everyone is trying to get to the right answer and everyone is being honest," he said, drawing a contrast to what he said was his previous experience working at OpenAI.

Daniela Amodei, Anthropic's president, said the focus on honesty also extends to how the leaders communicate with employees.

"Honesty and integrity and how we treat each other and our employees is also reflective of how we want the technology to be built," she said.

The podcast was released one day after Anthropic released its S-1 paperwork as it prepares to go public. As Henry Chandonnet wrote for Business Insider, the paperwork was chock full of language about honesty being central to the company's public persona.

Under a unique governance structure, as outlined in the S-1, the company's seven founders will control 50.1% of all shareholder votes, meaning the seven cofounders will have more voting power than all other shareholders combined. In addition to their voting power, the cofounders also hold significant stakes in the company and stand to earn billions. Each of the cofounders has pledged to donate 80% of their personal equity in the company to philanthropy.

Anthropic's highly anticipated S-1 paperwork also revealed key financial statistics: The company had a net loss of $42 billion and revenue of $4.6 billion last year, five customers drove around a quarter of revenue in the first nine months of the year, and the Amodeis together had total compensation packages valued at around $35 million last year. More than 90 pages of the S-1 outline risk factors, and Anthropic warned that a "catastrophic AI-related incident" could overwhelm the entire insurance industry.

The AI behemoth is expected to target a $1.5 to $2 trillion valuation when it debuts on the Nasdaq in November, potentially making it the largest IPO ever. Some investing experts have expressed concern that the market may struggle to absorb another blockbuster IPO.

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'Big Short' investor Michael Burry says Anthropic's IPO filing shows the AI industry is 'catastrophically vulnerable'

28 October 2026 at 12:41
Michael Burry of "The Big Short" fame.
Michael Burry, the investor of "The Big Short" fame.

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  • "The Big Short" investor Michael Burry says Anthropic's IPO filing has fueled his worries about AI.
  • Burry said a dense web of AI deals has made the industry "catastrophically vulnerable."
  • Writing on Substack, Burry described AI financing arrangements as "garish and audacious."

Michael Burry says Anthropic's IPO filing this week has reinforced his concerns that the entire AI ecosystem is at risk of disaster.

The investor of "The Big Short" fame wrote in a Substack post on Tuesday that the first in-depth look at Claude's parent company, ahead of what could be the biggest IPO in history, threw up a bunch of red flags.

Burry pointed to Anthropic's huge spending commitments, slowing revenue, and tangled ties.

He said that Anthropic has struck deals to buy about $537 billion of compute from the likes of Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft, and reached preliminary agreements worth hundreds of billions more with others such as SpaceXAI, putting its total commitments at about 12 times its current annual run-rate revenue.

"This is not stated clearly in the S-1, and in my view it is the most deserved headline from it," Burry wrote in a Tuesday Substack post.

He underscored how hyperscalers like Amazon and Alphabet act as Anthropic's "lenders, vendors, channel providers, and shareholders." He also outlined its deal with Broadcom, which involves Apollo and Blackstone and includes convertible notes and structured credit tranches.

"Just remember, the reason this is so complex is because too much debt is needed, and it must be unloaded from the balance sheets of those involved," Burry wrote.

"While some may see all the circularity and connectedness as security on the way up, and that is not wrong, it does leave the entire organism catastrophically vulnerable either on a pause or on the way down," he added.

He also described financing arrangements in the AI space as "garish and audacious," and said hyperscalers aren't generating enough cash to fund the AI buildout so they're resorting to "Byzantine" deals.

Burry said it was a "very similar" situation with vendor financing during the dot-com bubble, saying "people keep making the same mistakes with every new thing."

Burry's worries

In its filing, Anthropic said its revenue surpassed $16 billion for the first six months of this year, a 14-fold increase from the first half of 2025. Its operating loss narrowed by about two-thirds to below $700 million, and it generated nearly $4 billion in operating cash flow.

Burry initially commented on Anthropic's filing in a Substack chat thread on Monday.

He said that revenue was "slowing," citing Anthropic's claim that third-quarter revenue was 86 times the $197 million it generated in the fourth quarter of 2024, or about $16.9 billion.

That would mean Anthropic's revenue grew by about 46% between the second and third quarters of this year, after soaring 144% between the first and second quarters.

"Overall slowing of growth is not attributed to a decline in tokenmaxxing, but I did not expect that to be mentioned," Burry wrote.

A Substack comment by Michael Burry on Anthropic.
Michael Burry raised concerns about Anthropic's growth in a Substack comment.

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Burry was referring to the trend of maximizing AI token consumption, which has fallen out of favor in recent months given its costs.

In another comment, Burry wrote that large language models (LLMs) like Claude are "improving" and "already being used more efficiently and that trend will continue, to the detriment of their growth rate."

Burry said he's focused on the complexity and fragility of the debt financing many AI deals, hurdles to installing new graphics chips shoring up demand for older chips, a potential crash in memory chip prices once the shortage eases, compression and small language models (SLMs) reducing the need for computing power, and the "fundamentals behind not just companies but the deals they are doing."

Michael Burry laid out his chief concerns about LLMs.
Michael Burry laid out his chief concerns about LLMs.

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Responding to a subscriber who said that Big Tech companies are shifting from Anthropic's AI models to their own, and that tokens are rapidly being commoditized, Burry wrote: "Yes, that is what I hear."

Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Burry's posts.

The contrarian investor shot to fame after his massive wager against the mid-2000s housing bubble was chronicled in the book and movie "The Big Short." He pivoted from running a hedge fund to writing about his personal investments on Substack last winter.

A recurring theme of his work since then has been deep skepticism of the AI boom. He's flagged slowing growth, overinvestment in microchips and data centers, aggressive accounting, hidden liabilities, and circular financing deals.

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Consórcio de bancos e Blackstone financia infraestrutura de IA da Anthropic

27 October 2026 at 00:35

O Bank of America, a Blackstone, o Citi e o Morgan Stanley anunciaram nesta segunda-feira (26) uma operação de financiamento de US$ 63 bilhões para financiar a expansão da capacidade computacional de IA (inteligência artificial) da Anthropic, utilizando a tecnologia da Broadcom.

 

O financiamento tem como propósito a compra de aceleradores de IA e equipamentos de rede da Broadcom que serão alugadas à Anthropic. As entregas devem começar em 2027.

Os bancos Bank of America, Citi e Morgan Stanley serão responsáveis pela parcela do financiamento com garantia prioritária, enquanto a Blackstone será a única responsável pela parcela com garantia de segundo nível.

“A necessidade de computação para IA continua a crescer em um ritmo extraordinário. Isso valida a disponibilidade de capital para financiar esse crescimento e a posição única da Broadcom em viabilizá-lo”, afirmou o CEO da Broadcom, Hock Tan.

Mais cedo, a Anthropic registrou a proposta de oferta pública primária de ações (IPO, na sigla em inglês) na Comissão de Valores Mobiliários (SEC, na sigla em inglês) nos Estados Unidos.

Anthropic's IPO filing answers one of the biggest questions about the AI boom: Can AI labs actually make money?

26 October 2026 at 23:38
Posters on a wall at Anthropic's developer conference in San Francisco
Posters on a wall at Anthropic's developer conference in San Francisco.

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  • Anthropic shows strong profit potential, with revenue growing way faster than expenses.
  • Anthropic's revenue per employee exceeds $6.6 million, outpacing estimates for Meta and Google.
  • Anthropic has a surprisingly diverse customer base and huge cash reserves.

For years, one of the biggest unanswered questions about the artificial intelligence boom has been surprisingly simple: Can the companies building the world's most powerful AI models actually make money?

After spending hours poring over Anthropic's IPO filing on Monday, we finally have an answer: Yes. And potentially lots of it.

A couple of Chinese AI labs went public earlier, revealing appalling financial results that sowed doubt about the industry's economics. Now Anthropic has provided a much more compelling demonstration of how this business can work at enormous scale.

The numbers are remarkable. Anthropic generated $11.6 billion in revenue during the second quarter of 2026, up 1,368% from a year earlier. During that same period, spending on computing and infrastructure increased 300%, while other expenses rose 741%

So, the company is bringing in money much faster than its most important costs are rising.

From Q1 2025 to Q2 2026, quarterly revenue in billions of dollars was 0.4, 0.8, 1.4, 2.0, 4.7 and 11.6. Compute and infrastructure expenses were 0.9, 1.4, 2.0, 2.9, 3.4 and 5.6 billion dollars over the same quarters.

For every dollar Anthropic spent on computing in the second quarter, it generated $2.08 in revenue, up from just 40 cents in the first quarter of 2025. That's a more than fivefold improvement over five quarters.

The result: Anthropic recorded $974 million in quarterly operating profit, representing an 8% margin. Its adjusted operating profit margin reached 19%, compared with -129% a year earlier.

"Frontier-lab unit economics can turn positive at scale," Mark Mahaney, a top tech analyst at Evercore ISI, wrote in a research note on Monday.

Adjusted operating margin was −221%, −129%, −93%, −84%, −13% and 19% from Q1 2025 through Q2 2026, an improvement of 240 percentage points.

Better than Meta and Google

There's more evidence that Anthropic has built an unusually efficient business.

Over the year ending September 30, revenue increased roughly 1,200%, while its employee count grew about 170%. Revenue per employee jumped from $1.4 million to more than $6.6 million.

For comparison, Mahaney estimated that Meta generates about $3.2 million in annual revenue per employee, while Google generates about $2.5 million.

That comparison isn't perfect. Anthropic relies heavily on cloud providers, whose employees handle much of the computing infrastructure and distribution work. The improvement is still striking.

Customer surprise

Another surprise: Anthropic doesn't depend as much on a handful of enormous customers, as some investors had feared.

The company had more than 11,900 customers generating at least $100,000 in annual revenue as of September, compared with over 950 a year earlier. More than 1,900 customers spend at least $1 million annually.

Customers generating at least $100,000 in trailing-12-month revenue rose from approximately 20 on Dec. 31, 2023 to approximately 200 on Dec. 31, 2024, approximately 1,500 on Dec. 31, 2025, and more than 11,900 on Sept. 30, 2026.

No single customer accounted for more than 10% of revenue during the first nine months of 2026. Its five largest customers represented about 21% of third-quarter revenue, down from roughly 36% in the first quarter.

"Concentration may be better than feared," Mahaney wrote.

Cash cushion

Anthropic has a formidable financial cushion. Its June 30 balance sheet showed more than $130 billion in cash and short-term investments.

And Mahaney estimated that the company has burned through just $9 billion since it started more than five years ago. That's a long runway.

Now, don't ask me whether all this makes Anthropic worth $2 trillion, $1.5 trillion, $1 trillion, or considerably less. If I knew that, I'd be making a lot more money as an investor. And even professional investors don't know.

An $800 billion caveat

Some enormous caveats: Much of Anthropic's revenue comes from customers paying for what they use, rather than signing long-term contracts. Meanwhile, some of its computing agreements require minimum payments whether or not it needs all the capacity.

Mahaney estimates that Anthropic has entered into nearly $800 billion in computing arrangements, although only about $266 billion was fixed or guaranteed as of June.

That's still a staggering amount.

"The commitments assume revenue compounding that is not contracted," Mahaney wrote.

Translation: While the company has committed to spending hundreds of billions of dollars on AI computing infrastructure, it hasn't secured the future revenue needed to pay for all of it.

Importantly, most of the potential $800 billion exposure isn't fixed. Many arrangements depend on capacity being delivered, can be adjusted, or include cancellation provisions.

In-house compute and capex

Another wrinkle: Anthropic warned Monday that its spending will increase as it shifts toward leasing AI chips and operating more of its own computing infrastructure, rather than relying entirely on Amazon, Google, and other cloud providers.

That could make future cash flow considerably less attractive, even if operating profits continue to improve.

Still, the central takeaway from Anthropic's IPO filing is difficult to ignore.

For years, investors have wondered whether selling AI could become a genuinely profitable business, rather than an extraordinarily expensive scientific experiment.

Anthropic has now shown that it can. The next question is whether it can keep doing so as the bills get much, much bigger.

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A Anthropic quer o seu dinheiro (mas guarde as opiniões para si)

By: ZAP
26 October 2026 at 22:30
Empresa norte-americana de IA vai entrar em bolsa, mas investidores não terão poder de decisão: quem comprar ações tem de aceitar qualquer rumo que a Anthropic seguir. A Anthropic prepara-se para entrar em bolsa nas próximas semanas, mas os novos acionistas terão pouca (ou nenhuma) influência sobre as decisões da empresa. O controlo da gigante da inteligência artificial continuará concentrado num pequeno grupo de fundadores e num fundo fiduciário, segundo o documento S-1 divulgado pela empresa e apresentado à Comissão de Valores Mobiliários dos Estados Unidos (SEC) antes de lançada uma Oferta Pública Inicial (IPO). Sete fundadores, incluindo o diretor-executivo

Wall Street sobe impulsionada por techs e anúncio de IPO da Anthropic

26 October 2026 at 21:34

A bolsa de Nova York fechou em alta nesta segunda-feira (26) à medida que os fabricantes de semicondutores se recuperaram após o pedido de IPO da Anthropic reviver o entusiasmo pelo comércio de IA (Inteligência Artificial).

O Dow Jones subiu 0,29%, aos 52.364,02 pontos. O S&P 500 avançou 0,7%, a 7.676,84 pontos. Já o Nasdaq encerrou em alta de 0,82%, nos 26.169,38 pontos.

O Nasdaq teve destaque positivo, com as ações de chips e outras relacionadas à IA subindo depois que a Anthropic apresentou publicamente seu pedido de IPO.

A empresa que desenvolveu o Claude relatou US$ 16,29 bilhões em receita para os seis meses encerrados em junho, um aumento de 1.304% em relação a US$ 1,16 bilhão durante o mesmo período do ano anterior.

Outras manchetes importantes de IA contribuíram para o sentimento de risco. A Meta informou nesta segunda que está planejando levantar US$ 95 bilhões para apoiar seus investimentos em IA.

O CEO da SpaceX, Elon Musk, disse no fim de semana que a empresa de satélites e lançamentos de foguetes fechou um acordo de dívida de US$ 40 bilhões para chips de IA.

Para analistas do Charles Schwab, os resultados podem fornecer mais evidências sobre se o investimento em IA valeu a pena após sinais positivos no segundo trimestre.

“O comércio de IA está entrando em uma fase mais exigente, com investidores examinando se os retornos futuros justificam os crescentes compromissos de capital”, afirmam.

Os semicondutores se recuperaram, com o fundo iShares Semiconductor marcando alta de mais de 2%. As ações da Nvidia subiram 2,4%, a Micron aumentou 3%, a Broadcom ganhou 2,33% e a Advanced Micro Devices saltou 2,8%.

Já as ações da Moderna caíam 0,6% ampliando a desvalorização registrada na semana passada, após os resultados de um estudo sobre uma vacina contra o câncer ficarem abaixo das expectativas dos investidores.

Veja empregos que ganham e perdem com a inteligência artificial

 

Detentora dos direitos de Elvis Presley processa Anthropic por violação

26 October 2026 at 21:22

A Authentic Brands Group, organização que detém os direitos autorais e de imagem de Elvis Presley, acusa a Anthropic de usar 274 canções do cantor para treinar a inteligência artificial da empresa.

A instituição, a editora musical Raleigh Music Publishing, vários fundos patrimoniais e pelo menos uma pessoa física abriram um processo contra a desenvolvedora.

A ação, protocolado na Califórnia, não é a primeira contra uma companhia de IA. Gravadoras como Sony, Warner Records e Universal, e a Recording Industry Association of America, associação que representa a indústria fonográfica nos Estados Unidos, já abriram processos semelhantes, acusando empresas do setor de violação de direitos autorais.

No documento da ação, aberta na sexta-feira (23), o advogado Richard Busch alega que o Claude, principalmente modelo da Anthropic, foi projetado para usar conteúdo protegido por direitos autorais e gerar conteúdo que infringe esses direitos em “praticamente todas as músicas de todos os catálogos disponíveis na internet”.

“Os autores da ação judicial, que representam Elvis, movem este processo para fazer valer esses direitos exclusivos contra o réu, que construiu todo o seu modelo de negócios com base na violação de direitos autorais em uma escala nunca vista antes”, escreveu Busch no documento.

O processo acusa a Anthropic de utilizar 274 canções de Elvis Presley, incluindo “Can’t Help Falling in Love” e “All Shook Up”. Os detentores dos direitos pedem indenização de US$ 150 mil por faixa violada, ou cerca de US$ 41 milhões.

A ação ainda afirma que, mesmo com mecanismos de proteção para limitar a produção de conteúdos que violam direitos autorais, a Anthropic teria se envolvido “conscientemente” e continuaria a se envolver intencionalmente nesse tipo de violação.

Isso porque grandes modelos de linguagem, como o Claude, são treinados com dados disponíveis na internet. No caso das músicas, a IA aprende sons, letras e expressões que já existem para, em seguida, gerar suas próprias canções.

Em comunicado, a Anthropic afirmou que discorda das acusações e pretende se defender no processo.

 

The feds made $627 million selling Anthropic stock from SBF's friends — but could have made billions

27 October 2026 at 17:01
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Sam Bankman-Fried and two of his co-conspirators held investments in Anthropic, the AI company that has since soared in value.

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  • The feds seized Anthropic shares last year from Sam Bankman-Fried's associates.
  • Several months later, the government sold them for $627 million.
  • If Anthropic IPO'd in November at $1.5 trillion, those shares would be worth nearly $4 billion.

Last year, the federal government made a windfall of $627 million when it sold Anthropic shares it had seized from associates of crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.

If it had held on to that stake, its windfall could have been a lot bigger.

The federal government last year sold shares of Anthropic that had belonged to Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh, two co-conspirators in the FTX fraud case. The proceeds went to compensate victims of the fraud, a Justice Department spokesperson told Business Insider.

Anthropic's S-1 filing on Monday revealed how much the federal government made from the sale of those shares. The prospectus doesn't name Ellison and Singh specifically. It says the government in October 2025 sold 4,453,900 Series B shares of Anthropic that "had been forfeited by former holders in legal proceedings to which we were not a party."

The figure matches up exactly with the combined $50 million in shares that Singh and Ellison purchased for $11.2261 each in Anthropic's 2022 fundraising round, and later forfeited to the government.

The shares represent about a quarter of a percent of Anthropic today. But given the company's explosive growth, they are still worth a fortune.

Anthropic hasn't yet announced the stock price for its expected November initial public offering. At a $1.5 trillion valuation, the shares would be worth a total of about $3.94 billion. That would be six times as much as the government sold the shares for a year ago.

"One of the Justice Department's top priorities is returning forfeited funds to victims through the asset forfeiture program whenever the law allows," the DOJ spokesperson said.

The feds' stake in Anthropic

How the federal government came to own a chunk of Anthropic in the first place is a story involving a notorious fraudster and a complicated criminal forfeiture process.

Bankman-Fried participated in Anthropic's 2022 Series B fundraising round with Singh and Ellison. Singh purchased $40 million of the Series B shares, and Ellison acquired $10 million.

Singh and Ellison later pleaded guilty to crimes related to their work with Bankman-Fried and testified against him at his Manhattan federal criminal trial. The jury found Bankman-Fried guilty, and a judge sentenced him to 25 years in prison. The federal government took ownership of Singh's and Ellison's Anthropic shares by April 2025.

The US Marshals Service sold Singh's and Ellison's shares, rather than hold on to the red-hot Anthropic stock, Business Insider previously reported. The US Marshals Service Complex Assets Unit is typically tasked with dispensing shares of private companies acquired through criminal forfeiture.

Now we know that Anthropic purchased the stock from the feds in October 2025 at the price of $140.9676 per share, which is the same price Anthropic set for its Series F-1 stock in a fundraising round a month earlier.

Anthropic resold the shares to nine investors at the same $627 million total price it paid to purchase them from the federal government, so it didn't make a profit from the sale, according to the S-1 filing. It's not clear which nine investors purchased the shares originally owned by Singh and Ellison. Representatives for the US Marshals Service didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Anthropic shares owned by Ellison and Singh took a different path than the $500 million in Series B shares owned by Bankman-Fried himself. His shares ended up as part of FTX's bankruptcy estate, which sold them in 2024 to a few dozen buyers for a total of $1.3 billion.

The federal government sent the proceeds from the sale of Ellison's and Singh's shares to the FTX bankruptcy estate, the Justice Department spokesperson said. Bankruptcy court filings show that the Justice Department transferred $638 million to the bankruptcy estate in late 2025.

The money has gone to repaying creditors, including FTX customers and investors who were scammed by the former crypto wunderkind.

Update: October 26, 2026 — This story has been updated to include a comment from the Justice Department.

Correction: October 27, 2026 — The federal government transferred the proceeds of the sale of Caroline Ellison's and Nishad Singh's Anthropic shares to the FTX bankruptcy estate, according to a DOJ spokesperson. An earlier version of this story misstated whether the funds had been transferred.

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I ran Anthropic's 335-page IPO filing through an AI-writing detector. Well, well, well…

26 October 2026 at 20:36
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Anthropic's mostly human SEC filing, according to Pangram.

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  • I set out to see if Anthropic used Claude to draft its S-1 paperwork.
  • The filing is, according to the AI detector tool Pangram, 92% human-written.
  • Is that a good or bad thing? I'm not even sure!

Anthropic's much-awaited S-1 filing landed today, revealing all sorts of interesting things about the company's plans and current finances.

But the biggest question I had wasn't "does Anthropic think that accidentally destroying humanity is a business risk?" (yes) or "how much money are they losing?" (lots) or "does it feel weird to be part of the 50% of employees who don't do the pledge to donate some of their equity for the greater good?" (still wondering — if this is you, let me know).

My question was: Did they use AI to write this thing?

To find out, I ran the whole 335-page S-1 filing through Pangram, a service that checks for signs of AI-writing. Ok, well technically I tried to run it through myself, but ran into some problems with such a massive file. I reached out to Pangram CEO and cofounder Max Spero, and he ran the full file for me.

(I also reached out to Anthropic for comment about the tool's results. I haven't heard back — I suspect it's a busy day for them.)

And before you ask me why I didn't use Anthropic's official AI watermarking system to check, it's not available to normies yet.

Here's what Pangram's result was for the full 259,031 words on the S-1 filing:

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92% of Anthropics S-1 filing is human, according to Pangram.

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Well, well, well!

So there was a tiny bit of AI use, per Pangram. It flagged some sentences and passages it said with a "high" degree of confidence contained AI use, things like: "The pace of AI development is extremely rapid, with successive versions of models emerging in compressed timeframes, often measured in months rather than years."

"My read on a result like this is that it indicates light AI editing or AI usage at the sentence level," Spero told me. "It does not seem like any significant sections of the document are fully AI-generated."

An example of a sentence that Pangram flagged with "high" confidence as AI-generated.
An example of a sentence that Pangram flagged with "high" confidence as AI-generated.

Pangram

This is one of the limitations of something like Pangram, which isn't 100% perfect, and the way that people use AI tools these days for editing and proofreading might affect results.

My colleague Aki Ito ran all her LinkedIn posts and published articles here on Business Insider through Pangram as an experiment, and ended up with a tiny surprise: one sentence in one article was flagged as AI-written. When she looked back at it, she saw that ChatGPT had suggested she rephrase her original, human-written sentence, and she accepted the new wording. (I use Grammarly, an AI-powered grammar tool that mainly helps with my repeated crimes against commas, but occasionally suggests rewording, which I sometimes accept and sometimes reject, though I worry that this may get flagged as AI).

So it would appear Anthropic still had real humans — slow, expensive, fallible meatsacks — write this massive document, with just a little assist from Claude in the editing. That might be par for the course these days for IPO teams and S-1's, or at the very least the S-1's for literal AI companies. (If you're a banker who works on S-1s, shoot me an email!)

I can't tell if I think this is a good sign or a bad sign for Anthropic (and the world)?

On one hand, shouldn't Anthropic be eating its own dog food, so to speak, and proudly use its own AI for something like this? An S-1 filing is full of the kind of boilerplate, charmless, technical-ish writing that you'd assume AI would be perfect to replace a human for. If Anthropic is going to the hassle of having real (presumably highly paid humans) write out each of the 250,000+ words here, well, where is its faith in its own product? I you can't trust Claude to write your S-1, can you trust it to cure cancer?

On the other hand, thank god this isn't 100% AI-written. The stakes are pretty high when the SEC is poring over every word. If you're going to tell people your company is worth hundreds of billions of dollars, at least have a human show up and type it out, eh?

I guess bankers everywhere can breathe a sigh of relief.

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FTC demands Anthropic leaders testify in consumer harm investigation

26 October 2026 at 19:38
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has asked executives from the AI firm Anthropic to testify as part of its consumer harm probe into the maker of the Claude AI model, a FTC spokesperson confirmed to The Hill on Monday. The demand is part of the consumer protection agency’s larger investigation into Anthropic over the potential…

Why one VC firm is mentioned more than 50 times in Anthropic's S-1

26 October 2026 at 18:05
Anthropic logo displayed on a laptop screen and Claude on App Store displayed on a phone screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on October 16, 2026. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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  • Spark Capital is mentioned more than 50 times in Anthropic's S-1 filing, released Monday.
  • The reason Spark gets the most mentions is because partner Yasmin Razavi has a board seat.
  • Spark led the $450 million Series C round at a $4.5 billion valuation in May 2023.

Spark Capital's Yasmin Razavi has a reputation for refusing to make gut calls. Her methodical decision to invest in Anthropic is now set to generate one of the biggest fortunes in Silicon Valley history, as Anthropic prepares to IPO.

Many venture firms, including Lightspeed and Menlo Ventures, are major Anthropic investors, but Spark is the only traditional VC firm named in the filing. And it's not just a few mentions. Spark is named more than 50 times.

The reason Spark gets the most ink is because Yasmin Razavi has a board seat after being the first institutional investor in the company, leading the $450 million Series C at a $4.5 billion valuation in May 2023.

This was just six months after ChatGPT was released to the public, and the jury was out on whether a rival like Anthropic could catch up. Many balked at the price, calling it too expensive.

"It was a big leap of faith, but this was the team that built GPT-3," Razavi told Forbes.

The filing says that Spark has invested $777 million in Anthropic across six financings since then, including $75 million in the first pivotal round at $11.22 per share.

Spark was already known for making early bets on Postmates and Discord, but it was the Anthropic investment that transformed the firm's Silicon Valley reputation from a good venture firm to a great one.

Razavi said she has been continuously wowed by CEO Dario Amodei.

"Every year, he puts out outrageous numbers, but somehow they magically become true," Razavi told Forbes. "Dario never misses."

Soon, Amodei will face a greater test: the public markets.

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