Amazon (AMZN) Booked a $53.4 Billion Gain, Mostly From Anthropic, While Alphabet (GOOGL) Weighs a $15 Billion Commitment
Reported by Yahoo Finance · finance.yahoo.com · August 5, 2026
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) disclosed on July 30 that its second-quarter net income included $53.4 billion of non-operating pre-tax other income, primarily from its Anthropic investments. Net income reached $62.6 billion. The same day, Reuters relayed a Wall Street Journal report that Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) could guarantee billions of dollars of Anthropic’s obligations for a proposed […]
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