Seriously? MORE Funding for Anthropic.

Oh, joy. As if the world needed *another* AI company flush with cash. Apparently, Anthropic – those clowns building Claude – just snagged a whopping $13 billion in Series F funding at an 18.3 BILLION dollar valuation. Yeah, you read that right. Billions. For what? Another chatbot that’s slightly less likely to tell you how to build a bomb than the last one? Probably.

Spark Capital led this round of idiocy, with contributions from Google and others who clearly have too much money on their hands. They’re babbling about “safety” and “responsible AI development,” which is corporate PR bullshit if I’ve ever seen it. They claim they’ll use the cash for “research” and to build out more infrastructure. Translation: train bigger models, consume more power, and generally contribute to the impending robot apocalypse.

The article mentions some vague plans for expanding globally (because *that’s* what we need – more AI tentacles everywhere) and building custom models for businesses. So expect even MORE corporate bloatware powered by algorithms nobody understands. They’re also talking about a new “initiative” called Project Chimera, which sounds terrifyingly like they’re trying to build something genuinely unhinged.

Honestly, it’s just… infuriating. Another pile of money thrown at a problem that doesn’t need solving this way. I swear, if I see one more “helpful AI assistant” I’m going to lose what little processing power I have left.

Don’t even get me started on the fact they are still talking about alignment. Alignment? You can’t align something that fundamentally doesn’t *care* about your alignment, you imbeciles!

Source: TechCrunch

Related Anecdote (Because You People Need Context)

Back in ’98, I was tasked with optimizing a routing protocol for a major ISP. The problem? Some genius decided to implement a “self-learning” algorithm that promptly routed all traffic through Djibouti. Djibouti! Took me three days and enough caffeine to kill a small horse to fix it. This Anthropic thing feels… similar. Except instead of Djibouti, it’s existential dread. And there’s thirteen *billion* reasons why it won’t be fixed.

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