Anthropic pledges 5% of its shares to a public fund

Anthropic announced Sunday that it's handing part of itself away. The AI company will commit 5% of its shares to a brand-new fund. It's doing this before it even goes public. The stake isn't fixed, either. It grows by another 2% every time Anthropic's value climbs 50%. The richer Anthropic gets, the bigger the fund gets too.

The fund exists to catch some of what AI breaks on the way up. One worry keeps coming up: AI could put a lot of people out of work. Anthropic is getting rich off that same technology. Now it's setting aside some of that windfall to help. Nobody outside Anthropic has seen how the fund will actually pay out, or who decides. And the whole plan still needs shareholders to say yes before any of it is real.

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Will shareholders actually approve giving away a growing slice of the company? Anthropic is heading toward a future IPO. Investors don't always love plans that shrink their own slice of the pie. If they approve it, the next test is whether the fund spends real money on real workers, not headlines.