Daily Digest Sep 29: Anthropic Records $42 B Loss, OpenAI Scraps Astra, Taxpayers Paid $600 M for Vaccine Data They Can't Get

Anthropic burned $42B in 2025 even as revenue rose 12x, while copper, housing, and AI-safety signals all point to mounting systemic strain.

• Anthropic's leaked financials: A leaked SEC filing shows a $42B net loss in 2025 despite revenue rising 12x to $4.6B; compute costs of $7.33B were 58% of expenses, though Reuters says ~$34B was a non-cash accounting charge.
• Copper scarcity extreme: Deutsche Bank's Daniel Ghali calls current copper scarcity the most acute on record, projecting a ~50% rally to over $22,000/ton by Q2 2027 as China (2.05M tons) and US stockpiling encumber 71% of global inventories.

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