What if Anthropic is right about its doomsday machine?

Oct 31, 2026 – 5.00am If it wasn’t already obvious how pivotal the float of Anthropic will be to the fate of the artificial intelligence boom, it should be now. Even the biggest gorillas in the AI zoo are feeling the market’s growing doubts about how – and when – the trillions of dollars of spending on AI infrastructure will deliver meaningful returns.

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