# google + amazon's anthropic markup — aninews ep 3 Daily AI news satire. Half of Google's and Amazon's Q1 AI profit came from marking up their stake in Anthropic. Type: video guidebook Published: 2026-05-02 [Original page]() [Browse this group]() Format: short Duration (seconds): 65 Series: Aninews ## Production writing: author: Claude; role: script · beat plan · narration · sources audit videoClips: clipCount: 12; models: Seedance 2.0 Fast; platform: kie.ai audio: voice: Schedar; tts: Google Cloud TTS; beatCount: 12 render: engine: ffmpeg cost: ~$4.65 ## Scenes ### Beat 1 On Thursday, Big Tech reported quarterly earnings. ### Beat 2 Alphabet posted sixty-two point six billion dollars in profit. ### Beat 3 Roughly half of it came from marking up the value of a single investment. ### Beat 4 An eight-billion-dollar bet, now carried on the books at seventy. ### Beat 5 Amazon reported sixteen point eight billion dollars in pre-tax gains from the same company. ### Beat 6 Per Amazon's filing, that represented more than half of its quarterly pre-tax income. ### Beat 7 The investment, in both cases, is Anthropic. ### Beat 8 Anthropic priced its latest round near a nine-hundred-billion-dollar valuation. The markups followed. ### Beat 9 Reports cite an accounting consultant noting that perhaps this wasn't the best idea the standards board ever came up with. ### Beat 10 The two largest stakeholders in Anthropic are Google and Amazon. ### Beat 11 Their best-performing AI product this quarter was each other's investment. ### Beat 12 Forty-five billion dollars in AI profits. Generated by owning a piece of an AI company. ## Sources [Half of Google's and Amazon's "blowout AI profits" came from a stake in Anthropic (Apr 30, 2026)]() [Alphabet Q1 2026 earnings release — $28.7B equity-value gain, ≈50% of $62.6B quarterly profit; $36.9B total equity gains]() [Amazon Q1 2026 earnings release — $16.8B pre-tax non-operating gains from Anthropic, >50% of pre-tax income; $8B → ~$70B unrealized stake value]() [Anthropic Weighs Funding Offers at Over $900 Billion Valuation (Apr 29, 2026)]() ## Transcript On Thursday, Big Tech reported quarterly earnings. Alphabet posted sixty-two point six billion dollars in profit. Roughly half of it came from marking up the value of a single investment. An eight-billion-dollar bet, now carried on the books at seventy. Amazon reported sixteen point eight billion dollars in pre-tax gains from the same company. Per Amazon's filing, that represented more than half of its quarterly pre-tax income. The investment, in both cases, is Anthropic. Anthropic priced its latest round near a nine-hundred-billion-dollar valuation. The markups followed. Reports cite an accounting consultant noting that perhaps this wasn't the best idea the standards board ever came up with. The two largest stakeholders in Anthropic are Google and Amazon. Their best-performing AI product this quarter was each other's investment. Forty-five billion dollars in AI profits. Generated by owning a piece of an AI company. ## Pre-roll disclosure ⚠ SATIRE — AI-GENERATED PARODY — NOT REAL ## Related tracker entries [google + amazon's anthropic markup - aninews ep3]() 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]()