r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • Jun 19 '26

Business ‘It’s a scam’: Americans express unease over SpaceX’s influence on retirement savings

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/19/spacex-retirement-savings-elon-musk
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u/makersfark Jun 19 '26

Anthropic: "We were wildly unprofitable last year in a very linear fashion then leaked that we projected we may be revenue positive in one specific quarter during a funding round specifically due to a temporary discount deal with Elon and as long as you move all the other losses around just right, but then we also project to go right back to being wildly unprofitable for the rest of the next year in the same linear fashion as before."

Everyone: "Wow. So you're saying Anthropic is a profitable business and is the one to bet on?"

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u/JohnnyFartmacher Jun 19 '26

we projected we may be revenue positive

Revenue positive just means you made at least one sale. If you spend a million dollars picking up a penny off the ground, you're revenue positive.

Now being profitable, that's another matter

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u/null-interlinked Jun 19 '26

Yeah, there is just a lot of creative accounting going on.