The Verge on Anthropic's S-1: building the machine god is the only way to avoid bankruptcy
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-10-29
The Verge reads Anthropic's S-1 as financial justification for spending as much as possible on compute. The company is pinning its future on dramatic growth; in the S-1's logic, doing a bunch of things that look like building the machine god is the only way to avoid going bankrupt — an extreme collision of 'selling IT contracts to Wall Street' and 'building superintelligence'.
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