Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, announced Sunday it will commit 5% of its shares to a new Public Benefit Fund, bringing the portion dedicated to the public good to roughly 20% once co-founder and employee pledges are included. Elon Musk responded the next day by promising to give one SpaceX share to every child in the United States next year, a giveaway worth more than $10 billion at current prices. Anthropic is preparing an IPO for November at a reported valuation of around $2 trillion, and had presented lawmakers two days earlier with a draft AI safety bill that would allow the government to block models posing risks of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people or causing over $1 billion in damage.
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