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Anthropic said (Oct 18) it is committing shares to a new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, subject to stockholder approval. The initial commitment is 5% of Anthropic’s shares, with the board able to add another 2% for every 50% increase in company value above a set baseline. Anthropic is setting the fund up as a wholly owned LLC, not a 501(c)(3), and says none of the equity it holds will be used for lobbying or political giving in the US or abroad. The company points to labor-market effects as one use, on top of an existing $200 million commitment to study and address them, and says it may also make large donations to nonprofits or direct distributions. Anthropic says co-founders already pledged 80% of their own equity and about half of employees use an equity-donation match; combined with this fund, it says roughly 20% of shares will be dedicated to the public good, plus any later milestone additions. Governance details and a public-benefit report are still coming. Distinct from Anthropic’s earlier public hard-questions initiative.
Nieman Lab reported (Oct 17) that Meta revised the Commercial Terms preview that takes effect Oct 30, after Nieman’s Oct 15 story on a clause letting Meta crawl sites “associated with” a business account. The revised text Nieman quotes removes the verb “train” and says crawled content may be used to provide, develop, improve, research, and maintain “advertising and business products,” plus the integrity and security of Meta products. The crawl permission, including scrapers and test credentials, remains. A Meta spokesperson said the company clarified the terms because it was not clear that robots.txt preferences are respected, and that news sites can still disable the crawler that way. Nieman notes the revised terms do not mention robots.txt. Attorney Matt Topic said “develop” any business product is still broad enough to include training. Cornell’s James Grimmelmann said the “associated with your products or services” language can still cover entire sites. The European Publishers Council, the UK News Media Association, and the News/Media Alliance had already objected. Distinct from the Oct 16 report on the original clause.
The Verge reported (Oct 17) that consumer agents from Meta (Muse), xAI (Grok), OpenAI (Dots), and Instinct are being stopped on major sites. Yelp told TechCrunch it allows agents only through a paid data-licensing program. Delta is keeping third-party agents from booking flights. JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab confirmed they block agents from customer accounts over security and liability. Schwab CEO Rick Wurster told Bloomberg the firm will not let a client hand Muse a password to act on the account. Amazon says Muse’s continued access violates site policies; users have also reported Grok, Instinct, and Dots failing on Amazon. A judge’s order that stopped Perplexity’s shopping agent on Amazon was overturned on appeal in August, and Amazon filed an amended complaint. Meta says turning away an agent turns away the customer, and it has retail partnerships including Walmart, Gap, Sephora, and Best Buy; Shopify has opened storefronts to agents. The Verge also notes anti-bot checks can block agents even when a site has not banned them, and that OpenAI and Google had not commented. Distinct from the October Amazon–Perplexity lawsuit coverage and from Meta’s Muse product launch.
Source: The Verge
Updated October 18, 2026
What I teach: AI Agents, Local Models & AI Workflows
AI Agents
Autonomous agents with memory, tools, and skills that do the work, not just chat about it.
I teach AI Agents, Local Models, and AI Workflows to people who want to use AI, not just read about it. Before the channel: senior engineering roles at Standard Chartered Bank and Ohmyhome (Nasdaq), then a run of AI products built and shipped end to end. That's why every video, talk, and post is grounded in what actually ships.
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Speaker at NTU Singapore, PSIA, and DICT Philippines
300+ trained through workshops and mentoring
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