SCOUT· 66%7m·2026-09-30·TechnologyMonologue: Anthropic Lost $8bn In 2025, Was A Worse Business Than OpenAI
In this week's Better Offline, Ed Zitron walks through Anthropic’s 2025 financials, covering how it spent $2.75 to make a dollar, and how it was, at least last year, a worse business than OpenAI. Dead Money: https://www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/ Anthropic story from Reuters:…
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“Someone pointed out that WinRAR (the program with an infinitely extendable free trial) has more verifiable profit than OpenAI and Anthropic combined. 😆”
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