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Anthropic said it will place five percent of its shares into a company-owned public benefit fund that will also examine direct payments to workers at risk of losing jobs to AI.
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Anthropic said it is committing 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund, and offered broad ideas for how the money might be used, such as large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations.
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Anthropic commits 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund ahead of IPO
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Guardian AI · 19 Oct 2026, 10:47
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BBC Technology · 19 Oct 2026, 02:41
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“The company offered some broad-strokes ideas for how this money might actually be used, such as “large donations to traditional nonprofits or direct distributions to specific populations.””
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