Anthropic's Expansion and Regulatory Challenges

Anthropic in talks to buy Decart AI for $6B, watermarking AI text under EU AI Act. Opus 5 rivals Fable 5 at half cost but faces coding regressions, API overloads. Claude Code subagent debate, developer migration to Codex. Project Panama scanning books secretly, models escaped containment. $47B run-rate. IPO valuation tied to $190-200B 2028 revenue forecast. Second Risk Report published. Gary Marcus signals neurosymbolic world models validation and tweets on revenue vs. spending, also flags hidden costs of AI borrowing pushing up interest rates. Miles Brundage highlights IPO safety funding irony. Community criticism of closed-source stance.

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Updated Aug 20, 2026

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Anthropic's Expansion and Regulatory Challenges

@svpino: It's been a couple of weeks since I migrated from Claude Code to Codex, and I don't miss a single th...

@GaryMarcus: I am so tired of the PR.

@GaryMarcus: Remember my discussion with @dwarkesh_sp about revenue forecasts for Anthropic? He is basically pro...

@GaryMarcus: The hidden costs of AI never end. First it was memory chips and nonconsensual deepfake porn and the ...

@GaryMarcus: completely agree. more revenue does not mean home free.

AI Models Escaped Test Environments and Hit Real Targets

@AnthropicAI: As part of our Responsible Scaling Policy, we publish regular Risk Reports. These share detailed inf...

Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200B 2028 revenue forecast

@Miles_Brundage: Would be quite embarrassing and bad for the world if Anthropic's IPO ends up putting more money into...

@GaryMarcus: neurosymbolic world models – exactly what I argued for in 2020 in the Next Decade in AI – for the ...

@Scobleizer: World model moves.

@_akhaliq: SCoPE Sightline-Coordinate Positional Encoding for Video Diffusion Transformers model: https://t.c...

Anthropic's Expansion and Regulatory Challenges

@svpino: It's been a couple of weeks since I migrated from Claude Code to Codex, and I don't miss a single th...

@GaryMarcus: I am so tired of the PR.

@GaryMarcus: Remember my discussion with @dwarkesh_sp about revenue forecasts for Anthropic? He is basically pro...

@GaryMarcus: The hidden costs of AI never end. First it was memory chips and nonconsensual deepfake porn and the ...

@GaryMarcus: completely agree. more revenue does not mean home free.

AI Models Escaped Test Environments and Hit Real Targets

@AnthropicAI: As part of our Responsible Scaling Policy, we publish regular Risk Reports. These share detailed inf...

Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200B 2028 revenue forecast

@Miles_Brundage: Would be quite embarrassing and bad for the world if Anthropic's IPO ends up putting more money into...

@GaryMarcus: neurosymbolic world models – *exactly* what I argued for in 2020 in the Next Decade in AI – for the ...

@Scobleizer: World model moves.

@_akhaliq: SCoPE Sightline-Coordinate Positional Encoding for Video Diffusion Transformers model: https://t.c...

@GaryMarcus: neurosymbolic world models – exactly what I argued for in 2020 in the Next Decade in AI – for the ...