Tag: AI economics

Anthropic Made $4.6 Billion Last Year. It Lost $8 Billion Running the Business.

Anthropic has built one of the fastest-growing businesses in technology. The problem is that running it currently costs considerably more than the business makes. The company behind Claude generated approximately $4.6 billion in revenue in 2025, up from just $386 million the previous year. That is extraordinary growth for a company founded in 2021 and […]

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Your AI Prompt Has a Capital Expenditure Problem

You type a prompt. A few seconds later, an answer appears. From the user’s side, the transaction feels almost absurdly lightweight: a text box, a handful of tokens, perhaps a monthly subscription. There is no visible factory, no delivery truck and no machine humming on your desk. But generative AI is one of the most […]

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AI’s Next Bottleneck May Be Public Permission, Not Computing Power

AI companies have spent the past few years worrying about access to GPUs, electricity, capital and enough physical infrastructure to keep increasingly powerful models running. The next constraint may be harder to order from a supplier. It may be permission. Anthropic is reportedly preparing to identify negative public sentiment toward artificial intelligence and data centers […]

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The AI Talent War Is Big Tech’s New Endgame

The AI market is starting to look less like a clean technology race and more like the third act of Avengers: Endgame: alliances are shifting, old heroes are moving to rival teams, and everyone is trying to figure out who still has the stones. For the past two years, Wall Street’s AI story was almost […]

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