Anthropic pledges at least 5% of shares to public-benefit fund

Anthropic's pledge comes as frontier AI labs face increasingly negative public reactions to their technological advances. The company is circulating a draft AI safety bill in Congress, though Semafor's senior tech correspondent noted that the proposal is "to some, no longer being perceived as strong enough." That detail suggests the political environment around AI regulation is shifting, and Anthropic's share commitment may be an attempt to stay ahead of that shift. The body also notes that rival OpenAI has similarly discussed handing a 5% stake to the US government, indicating that such public-benefit commitments are becoming a pattern among leading AI firms as they prepare for record-breaking IPOs.