19 October 2026
Anthropic pledges 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund
First reported
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- Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, will commit 5% of its shares, worth about $48bn, to a fund for the public good.
- The fund may make large donations to nonprofits or pay money directly to groups affected by AI, mainly job losses, pending shareholder approval.
- Elon Musk responded by pledging to give one of his SpaceX shares to every American child next year.
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Reported by The Guardian, The Decoder, Financial Times, TechCrunch