alt.hn

5/20/2026 at 10:03:52 PM

Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic into First Profitable Quarter

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mind-blowing-growth-is-about-to-propel-anthropic-into-its-first-profitable-quarter-7edbf2f4

by sigmar

5/21/2026 at 1:09:02 AM

"Operating profit" is a weasel word phrase. It doesn't include capital expenditures, financing, stock compensation dilution, or long-term infrastructure commitments.

by not_the_fda

5/21/2026 at 1:40:51 AM

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by varalaakshay

5/20/2026 at 11:45:25 PM

Really looking forward to Ed Zitron having a meltdown over this.

by nekzn

5/21/2026 at 12:16:48 AM

"It's all made up! The numbers are fake!"

There, now you don't have to watch his next rant.

by jiggawatts

5/20/2026 at 11:11:58 PM

Maybe that will allow them to package Claude Code for Linux.

by moogly

5/21/2026 at 12:28:34 AM

I'm not sure what you're saying here. You can use Claude Code on Linux.

by royal__

5/21/2026 at 12:38:29 AM

He's probably talking about the desktop version, which afaik doesn't officially exist on Linux. There are Debian packages that repackage the electron code though: https://github.com/aaddrick/claude-desktop-debian

by jfim

5/20/2026 at 10:08:37 PM

Given 4.7 token consumption - no wonder.

by dude250711

5/21/2026 at 1:32:01 AM

Seriously. Why don't other companies think of this? All Anthropic had to do was make GPT 4.6 use about 15% more tokens and voila! 80x growth YoY

by JacobAsmuth

5/21/2026 at 12:37:52 AM

I don’t know how people take these claims seriously for private companies. Does no one remember Enron?

That being said I am sure they are making bank.

by amazingamazing

5/20/2026 at 11:55:45 PM

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by ath3nd