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Over 100 companies signed a letter defending open-weight models. Anthropic stayed out and became the target. I explain why the irony of this story runs deeper than it first looks.
SpaceX joined the Nasdaq-100 on July 7 with $4.3B in forced buying. Anthropic filed its IPO confidentially in June ($965B valuation). OpenAI follows. If you have a 401(k) or index fund, you're already a shareholder. You didn't choose to be.
42,300 words. 5 chapters. The first papal document entirely focused on AI. Anthropic's co-founder spoke at the launch. Simon Willison called it 'the clearest writing I've seen on AI ethics.' And Silicon Valley's CEOs went silent.
76% of Americans don't trust AI. GDPR guarantees the 'right to explanation.' The EU AI Act demands transparency. But when your Alexa says it knows you're a nursing student — and won't explain how — all of that becomes theory without practice.