Monologue: Anthropic Is Not Profitable Unless You Remove Its Costs

Monologue: Anthropic Is Not Profitable Unless You Remove Its Costs

From Better Offline by Cool Zone Media and iHeartPodcasts

May 22, 2026 · 13 min

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Ed Zitron discusses Anthropic's financial claims and their discrepancies with reported data.

In this week's Better Offline monologue, Ed Zitron runs you through Anthropic’s claims it will be non-GAAP EBITDA profitable for Q2 2026 by having SpaceX discount its compute costs, and how said revenues don’t match up with its CFO’s sworn affidavit or previous reporting on its finances. Companion newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/anthropics-profitability-swindle/ https://www.flyingpenguin.com/wheres-ed-anthropic-told-court-5-billion-but-public-19-billion/ Please subscribe to my premium newsletter - save $10 off a year of my premium newsletter:  https://edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo-subscription/gzqwkv54e1 YOU CAN NOW BUY BETTER OFFLINE MERCH! Go to https://cottonbureau.com/people/better-offline and use code  FREE99 for free shipping on orders of $99 or more. --- LINKS: https://www.tinyurl.com/betterofflinelinks Newsletter: https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BetterOffline/   Discord: chat.wheresyoured.at Ed's Socials: https://twitter.com/edzitron https://www.instagram.com/edzitron https://bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com https://www.threads.net/@edzitron Email Me: ez@betteroffline.com See…

People in this episode

Host: Ed Zitron

Topics covered

  • profitability
  • technology
  • finance
  • AI
  • business claims

Keywords

  • Anthropic
  • profitability
  • SpaceX
  • EBITDA
  • finance
  • technology

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Organizations: Anthropic, SpaceX, Cool Zone Media, iHeartPodcasts

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