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Anthropic filed to go public. Amodei’s 80% pledge isn’t legally binding.
CEO Dario Amodei and six co-founders each pledged 80% of their Anthropic shares to charity. The S-1 filing says the pledges can be changed.
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Elon Musk says AI’s real bottleneck isn’t chips. It’s power.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO told BlackRock’s Larry Fink that electricity, not chips, now limits how fast AI can spread.
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Mark Zuckerberg asked Wall Street for $95 billion. Then Meta raised it to $97.5 billion.
Meta announced its biggest stock raise ever on Monday, Oct. 26, to pay for AI data centers. A day later it upsized the plan, Reuters reported.
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Palmer Luckey isn’t leaving California. He says he’ll fight the wealth tax instead.
Other billionaires pushed the Anduril founder to leave in “solidarity.” On Monday, Oct. 26, he said he’s staying, and that the ballot measure would tax founders’ control of their companies, TechCrunch reported.
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Tony Xu’s DoorDash agrees to buy Instacart for about $17 billion
Instacart holders will get $65 a share, a 26% premium to the Oct. 22 close; regulators in the U.S., Canada and Israel still must approve.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei compared selling AI chips to selling nuclear weapons
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2026, Amodei argued against selling advanced chips to China, according to the forum’s session video.