EP 664 : Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, AI Workforce Changes & OpenAI, Google Updates
Anthropic just turned talk into cash with its new Public Benefit Fund, a company‑owned LLC that could claim up to 5 % of the lab’s equity – about $48 billion at today’s valuation – and funnel payouts to nonprofits or workers displaced by AI. With public trust in artificial intelligence slipping, this could be the most tangible PR boost since OpenAI launched its own foundation.The fund isn’t the only story. Anthropic’s internal study shows junior engineers falling from 27 % to 9 % of technical hires, while AI agents now log six times more hours than the humans who manage them. Engineers push…
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