Monologue: Anthropic Is Not Profitable Unless You Remove Its Costs
Anthropic’s reported Q2 2026 operating profit of $559 million is almost certainly an artifact of temporarily suppressed costs through a discounted compute deal with SpaceX, not a shift in its underlying economic model. The timing—coinciding with a funding round and Nvidia’s earnings—sugge
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