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Anthropic Just Raised $30 Billion. Most CEOs Say AI Has Changed Nothing.

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Introduction

The number arrived on a Tuesday with the quiet certainty of something that had already been decided. Thirty billion dollars. A single funding round, for a company that earned its first dollar in revenue less than three years ago.

To put that in context: $30 billion is more...

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