Gary Marcus#153
Anthropic faces AI spending backlash before IPO https://www.axios.com/2026/06/02/anthropic-ipo-ai-sticker-shock-spending-usage?utm_campaign=mrf-utm_campaign=editorial&utm_source=x&utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&mrfcid=202606026a13c9401f0de911809ad413
Things are so chaotic in AI right now that @axios had to specify *which* AI backlash they were referring to!
Anthropic faces AI spending backlash before IPO https://www.axios.com/2026/06/02/anthropic-ipo-ai-sticker-shock-spending-usage?utm_campaign=mrf-utm_campaign=editorial&utm_source=x&utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&mrfcid=202606026a13c9401f0de911809ad413
Until today I never once in my life thought about what the plural of backlash was.
Things are so chaotic in AI right now that @axios had to specify *which* AI backlash they were referring to!
Gary Marcus#153Anthropic faces AI spending backlash before IPO https://www.axios.com/2026/06/02/anthropic-ipo-ai-sticker-shock-spending-usage?utm_campaign=mrf-utm_campaign=editorial&utm_source=x&utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&mrfcid=202606026a13c9401f0de911809ad413
Many users criticized Anthropic's heavy AI spending ahead of its IPO as a sign it will lose the AI race to OpenAI while worsening unemployment and human misery, though some argued the backlash deliberately aids valuation perceptions.