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Can Anthropic Survive a $1 Trillion Lawsuit?

The AI giant chases a $150 billion valuation while facing massive legal exposure—and the UK and EU may be even riskier ground

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Amer Altaf
Jul 26, 2025
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As Anthropic eyes a $150 billion valuation in its next funding round, it finds itself at a historic crossroads—celebrated as one of the world’s most advanced AI labs while also confronting a class action lawsuit that could, in theory, sink the entire company.

At the centre of this drama is Claude, Anthropic’s large language model (LLM), trained on a mass…

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