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Anthropic, the maker of Claude AI, announced on October 19, 2026 that it will commit 5 percent of shares to a new public benefit fund designed to address potential job disruption from artificial intelligence. The company said the fund will be structured as a limited liability company to provide flexibility in how the capital can be deployed. The move signals corporate acknowledgment of AI's labor-market implications and represents a significant commitment to addressing workforce transition risk ahead of the company's anticipated public offering.