Reuters' Anthropic story claimed $518B cloud spend 'in coming year' — it was a typo
charliermarsh · x · 2026-09-29
- Reuters' write-up of the Anthropic IPO stated the company was "[planning] to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year," and the figure spread widely across X.
- charliermarsh (Ruff co-founder) spotted that it was a typo: Reuters quietly corrected "year" to "years."
- A one-word slip made multi-year compute obligations read as a single-year spend — a textbook case of how AI-reporting numbers get misread and amplified.
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