SITUATION EXPLAINED: Anthropic and Elon Musk just pledged nearly $60 billion in stock to the public, but in very different ways.Read original on X
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Anthropic and Musk pledge nearly $60 billion in stock to the public
A growing company fund versus direct share giveaways sketch two competing answers to how AI-era wealth gets distributed.
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Jason Calacanis warns Anthropic’s 5% public-benefit fund could become a “slush fund” and says the cash should go straight to people as shares. Who should control AI’s windfall? The labs? The government? Or every American?Read original on X
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