A lot of people (not me) are bothered by the just-reported fact that Anthropic has sometimes asked prospective employees whether they are comfortable with the possibility that the price of the company stock could potentially crash to zero.But whatever Anthropic may ask employees, they certainly seem to have other plans. Big plans:How crazy is that? These two tweets give some context:and, in slightly more detail, making clear who will be left holding the bag:And of course it’s not just retail investors who will likely be left holding the bag, but pension funds, too.§Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, Thomson Reuters has become the latest company to pull back on its Claude usage.Gary Marcus@GaryMarcusstill more bad news for Anthropic.
if they don’t scale back expectations for their IPO, it’s going to be a trainwreck.Charles Rollet @CharlesRollet1NEW: Thomson Reuters wanted to rely less on Claude. So it built its own AI model off Alibaba's Qwen.
TR's CTO says using frontier labs for intelligence, instead of building on open source, is like renting a house.9:49 PM · Aug 24, 2026 · 198K Views17 Replies · 44 Reposts · 386 LikesThe race between fantasy and reality continues.ShareNo posts
