In the moments after Anthropic expanded a ban on popular ways to buy its shares, investor chatrooms around the world lit up.
“Are we screwed?” one person wrote in a WhatsApp chat for family offices with several hundred members. Similar questions reverberated more publicly across X, Reddit and Chinese-language social media, as investors worried whether their shares in the artificial intelligence developer — one of the most coveted private companies — had suddenly become worthless.
Days later, there is little clarity. Anthropic PBC issued a stern warning on its website last week about unauthorized sales, taking the unusual step of naming eight firms whose ...