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Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about half as much of Anthropic as CEO Dario Amodei

TechCrunch • Tue, 20 Oct 2026

The former Google CEO owns about 1% stake in the leading AI lab, Bloomberg reported.

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The former Google CEO owns about 1% stake in the leading AI lab, Bloomberg reported.

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