Anthropic commits at least 5% of shares to a public interest fund

Anthropic announced it will put at least 5% of its shares into a public interest fund, and said it may add more when certain revenue targets are reached. Semafor said the move is the latest effort by frontier AI labs to ease public backlash over employment and social impact, and noted that OpenAI has also discussed giving 5% of shares to the US government. Both companies are preparing for record IPOs. Anthropic is also circulating a draft AI safety bill in Congress, but the Semafor reporter noted that the proposal is no longer seen by some as sufficiently strong.