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Assertion Supported
Intelligence AI: Only 18% of AI coding token spend yields shipped products
“For companies using advanced AI coding tools, only 18% of spending on tokens It's translating into shipped coding products that reach real users, according to Intelligence AI, a startup that aggregated data, and more than 2000 companies using AI, using advance…”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 2, 2026 ▶ 15:47 Warning Signs For The AI Boom, Anthropic Passes OpenAI, Robinhood’s AI Trading
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: WSJ reports Anthropic will generate $10.9B in Q2, reaching profitability
“So they're going to make 10.9 billion In the second quarter, and the journal says it's an explosive rate of growth that will help it turn an operating profit for the first time.”
Alex Kantrowitz May 25, 2026 ▶ 8:17 Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
Opinion
Roy: Anthropic's projected $10.9B Q2 revenue is overly ambitious
“There's been a lot of growth, but we all know Codex show a five point show up from open AI recently. I've seen endless chatter around people actually switching over from anthropic. So the idea that it's going to be a straight line or not even straight line, I'…”
Ranjan Roy May 25, 2026 ▶ 14:59 Is OpenAI Ready To IPO?, The Datacenters in Space Myth, The Kids Boo AI
Opinion
Ramaswamy: NYT and WSJ are the only successful open-web newspaper businesses
“The sort of two credible pure information businesses, newspapers that have come out of that are the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. And everybody else is a little bit off and also ran.”
Sridhar Ramaswamy Sep 6, 2023 ▶ 19:09 Google’s Weird Year + Neeva Goes to Snowflake — With Sridhar Ramaswamy
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kantrowitz: CEOs will push AI adoption rather than execute imminent downsizing
“Well, but I do think that we're going to see more CEOs with messages like this, and I think this Wall Street Journal writer is totally right, that more than a imminent downsizing, it's just going to be like, please use the tools”
Alex Kantrowitz Jun 23, 2025 ▶ 33:03 OpenAI and Microsoft Tension Boils, Amazon’s Job Automation, Zuck’s Spending Spree
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sitaraman: All major AI labs officially denied being Effective Altruism-aligned
“For this story, we asked all the companies, by the way, if they agreed with characterization of them as EA or not, and all of the companies told us they are not EA aligned.”
Deepa Sitaraman Dec 4, 2023 ▶ 11:13 Silicon Valley's Effective Altruist vs. Accelerationist Religious War
Assertion Supported
Kantrowitz: Meta stock is down 59% since the Facebook Files
“Meta stock, it's now Meta, Meta stock is down 59%.”
Alex Kantrowitz Sep 29, 2022 ▶ 1:45 Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen On Product, Competition, And Transparency
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