Wall Street Journal 2026-05-25-1
Anthropic Q2: $10.9B Revenue, $559M Operating Profit, Compute-to-Revenue 71¢→56¢ — Cost-Structure Asymmetry Bifurcates the AI Bubble Thesis
Anthropic disclosed to investors — and WSJ reviewed the projections — Q2 revenue of $10.9B versus $4.8B in Q1, with $559M operating profit and compute-to-revenue down from 71¢ to 56¢. The 56¢ ratio is the first published frontier-lab data point that materially decouples profitability from Nvidia silicon and Microsoft-circular financing. The bubble call now applies to OpenAI-Microsoft specifically, not the sector — and the reseller-gross accounting, which OpenAI's CRO already disputes, is the post-IPO short-report flashpoint to watch.