Anthropic pledges 5% of stock to charity, but the gift hinges on AI boom
The AI giant's philanthropic fund is real, but its value is a bet on the sector's staying power.

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The AI giant's philanthropic fund is real, but its value is a bet on the sector's staying power.
Tech leaders want the shares given directly to Americans, not parked in a foundation.
The AI company is locking a slice of its value to social causes before a potential November IPO, with roughly 20% of shares now pledged to the public good.
The billionaire claims the world's first flying car, but the real stakes are the regulatory scramble and the blurring line between auto and aerospace.
The next-gen Roadster finally arrives with a thruster option, but the price of entry is steep enough to make even collectors blink.
Tesla's new luxury sports car has thrusters that can send it airborne, raising the stakes for automakers and regulators.
The long-promised Roadster finally performed live, using cold-gas thrusters to clear Tesla's own lineup in a single bound.
The arrest of an OpenAI employee for allegedly planting a bug in its office signals a new front in the A.I. race: insider espionage.
The arrest exposes a sophisticated insider threat at a top AI lab, where unreleased models and proprietary research are prime targets for espionage.
Starlink's push into mobile spectrum is spooking investors, and the sell-off shows how fast the telecom moat is eroding.
The strait of Hormuz is back at the center of a live conflict, with tanker fires and reprisal attacks threatening the world's key oil chokepoint.
A Harvard valedictorian used Claude to hit a 1939 breakthrough, but the missing “why” is the real problem.