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hn_submittoday at 12:17 PM1 replyview on HN

I think the pumped-up hype nicely coincides with some A.I. companies' desire to go public in the coming weeks or months.

I see lots of fabricated news on the internet concerning LLMs. Like one that claims GPT-6 broke an Enigma enciphered message which has withstood decrypting for almost 80 years. And how this seasoned cryptographer stood in awe. Yeah, right.


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0xDEAFBEADtoday at 12:28 PM

A good way to check whether it's substance vs hype is to check whether people are paying for it.

"Anthropic is now pacing to generate more than $100 billion in annual revenue, up 50% from just two months ago, the New York Times reported Friday."

https://www.axios.com/2026/09/18/anthropic-100-billion-reven...

That's already more revenue that Disney, Johnson & Johnson, Boeing, or FedEx. And they are growing extremely rapidly.