Today, we’re announcing that Amazon will invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic. The agreement is part of a broader collaboration to develop reliable and high-performing foundation models.
(Thread continues from there with more details -- seems like a notable major development!)
I'm basically making the same point as the parent comment, although perhaps a bit more starkly, and with the additional point about lack of democratic mandate. Yet that's on +36 karma and mine is on -6. This is why we need a separate "outside game" movement on AI x-safety.