Anthropic Names 8 Firms Selling Unauthorized Private Shares

2 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · May 12

Eight firms were named by Anthropic in an updated investor alert as offering unauthorized access to the company's private shares.
Anthropic said those offerings violate its transfer restrictions and warned investors that buying the stock through those channels will not work.
The update expands an earlier blog warning about "stock scams" that issued fraudulent share certificates tied to the private AI developer.
The alert underscores growing risks in secondary marketplaces for sought-after private AI companies whose shares are tightly controlled.

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