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Dario Amodei's Anthropic is telling would-be investors that the very technology it's asking them to fund could pose a "catastrophic or existential risk to humanity." Wall Street is calling Anthropic's IPO a prospectus a "head scratcher" due to its doomer language. 

Dario Amodei's Anthropic is telling would-be investors that the very technology it's asking them to fund could pose a "catastrophic or existential risk to humanity." Wall Street is calling Anthropic's IPO a prospectus a "head scratcher" due to its doomer language.  | Tech

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