# google + amazon's anthropic markup - aninews ep3 anime news satire on big tech profiting from owning a piece of an AI competitor Type: project entry Published: 2026-05-02 [Original page]() [Browse this group]() Parent project: spoolcast Series: Aninews Recorded status: launched Updated: 2026-05-21T19:41:48.221Z Technologies: spoolcast, ffmpeg, Seedance 2.0 Fast, Google Cloud TTS, gpt-image-2 ## Details On Thursday April 30, Alphabet and Amazon both reported Q1 2026 earnings. Roughly half of each company's headline AI profit came from marking up their stake in Anthropic — Google's $28.7 billion equity-value gain (≈50% of $62.6 billion quarterly profit) and Amazon's $16.8 billion in pre-tax non-operating gains (>50% of pre-tax income). Their best AI business this quarter was each other's investment. Episode 3 of FAUX7 NEWS — the daily AI news satire series — tells this through a masked-council anime trope: two robed figures at a round table do mysterious dealings with a glowing orb, until the masks come off mid-episode and reveal the CEOs. **Sources** - Fortune — Half of Google's and Amazon's "blowout AI profits" came from Anthropic stake (April 30, 2026) - Alphabet Q1 2026 earnings release: $28.7B equity-value gain, ≈50% of $62.6B quarterly profit - Amazon Q1 2026 earnings release: $16.8B pre-tax non-operating gains from Anthropic; $8B → ~$70B unrealized stake value - Robert Willens (tax/accounting consultant) commentary on the FASB markup rule - Anthropic Series G discussions ~$900B valuation triggering both markups **AI disclosure** This is AI-generated satire of real news. All facts and figures are sourced from real reporting. Visuals are AI-synthesized; characters are fictional caricatures of public figures (Sundar Pichai, Andy Jassy, Robert Willens) and a generic financial-analyst archetype. **How it's made** Built on the spoolcast video pipeline. 12 anime-cel-shaded beats via Seedance 2.0 Fast; narration via Google Cloud TTS (Schedar voice); ffmpeg post for watermark, source chyrons, burned captions. Locked anime archetypes generated via gpt-image-2 + ChatGPT. ## Links [Site or demo]() [Video]() ## Related build notes [shipped news-anime-bot ep 3 — google + amazon's anthropic markup]() [Video guidebook]() Status and dates describe the published record, not a recent test of an external service. Missing details are not inferred. Public links do not imply an open-source licence or permission to reuse material. [Directory]()