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Anthropic plans to put 5% of its shares into a public benefit fund

Anthropic plans to put 5% of its shares into a new public benefit fund. The company announced the plan on Sunday.

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Stockholders still have to approve the 5%. The board can add 2% more per 50% rise in value above a set baseline. The fund is an LLC owned by Anthropic. Its Anthropic shares won't be used for lobbying or political giving. The money could go to nonprofits, or directly to groups of people. Anthropic says governance details will follow in the coming months.

Also today: China has proposed export limits on 40 technologies. AI models and agents are on the list, Reuters and AP report. The plan is still a draft.

And Anthropic says Claude designed quantum circuits that beat the best published ones. One used 17 times fewer gates, but 12% more qubits. These are scored designs, not runs on real hardware.

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Anthropic plans to put 5% of its shares into a new public benefit fund. The company announced it on Sunday. Stockholders still have to approve it. The board can add 2% more for each 50% rise in value above a baseline. Its shares won't be used for lobbying or political giving. We think it is a bet on public trust. The bigger question is who decides how it is spent. Anthropic has not said yet.

Also today. China has proposed export limits on 40 technologies. AI models and agents are on the list, Reuters and AP report.

And Anthropic says Claude designed quantum circuits that beat the best published ones. One used 17 times fewer gates, but 12% more qubits. These are designs, not runs on real hardware.

That's your byte. Sources at sixtybytes.com.

Sources

  1. Anthropic — Investing in the public benefit
  2. TechCrunch — Anthropic says it's committing 5% of its shares to a 'public benefit fund'
  3. Reuters — China proposes adding 40 AI, biotech, solar technologies to export control list
  4. Associated Press — China says it will curb tech exports, including AI, citing national security risks
  5. Anthropic — Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude
  6. arXiv — Discovering state-of-the-art quantum circuits with large language models

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