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Anthropic, the AI startup behind Claude, recorded a staggering $80.7 billion net loss in the first six months of 2026, exposing the enormous financial costs behind one of Silicon Valley's fastest-growing companies just as it prepares for a blockbuster initial public offering. The loss, disclosed in a draft IPO prospectus reviewed by The Wall Street

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[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 7 points 45 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

They're gonna IPO, get a shortcut into the Indexs so that Index Funds have to spend money (your retirement money) buying tons of stock at the near-IPO price, turning fake future profits into actual real US Dollars that the company can use to cash out executives and owners before the company explodes taking the economy with it. Elon already did this with SpaceX minus the economy exploding (yet).

I would not be invested in an index tracking asset which will include the tech or hardware companies involved in the AI supply chain.

[–] statelesz@slrpnk.net 1 points 6 minutes ago

Clickbait, most of the money never actually existed, but it's value changed on paper and companies have to disclose it anyway.

Roughly $72 billion of the loss came from accounting charges tied to changes in the value of convertible notes and other financial instruments Anthropic used to raise money.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

I think that means isaiprofitableyet is way out of date lol

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 30 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Dario in 3... 2...

Scene from Pirates of the Caribbean where Jack Sparrow steps onto a dock off of a sinking ship.

I think they were only ever trying to IPO so they could use a gazillion bagholders as their exit liquidity.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 40 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

... not counting the $1.5 trillion debt the "big" AI players are hiding in subsidiaries

And this company, which has lost more money than most companies in the history of the world, would like an IPO evaluation of $2 trillion

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

At the current rate that's only enough for two years or so.

[–] dudeface@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

IPO doesn’t really cover operational costs either unless you let the staff who just got rich buy stock back

[–] NathanRanch@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 hours ago

80B so far...

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If I lost that much money, I would not be in business anymore.

[–] kungen@feddit.nu 8 points 1 hour ago

If you lose $80,000, that's your problem. If you lose $80,000,000,000, that's everyone else's problem.