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Eric Schmidt's $80 Billion Anthropic Bet

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Everyone Wants To Give Back

Elon Musk promised every American kid a SpaceX share, about $10.5B worth, as Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund. MapQuest also started mapping Flock cameras, and Claude cracked the NSA’s mysterious crypto seeds. Elon Musk says “I will give one of my Spa ...  Show more

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