David Sparks: ‘Apple Should Buy Anthropic (But Likely Won’t)’

There’s also an ideological alignment. Anthropic has taken a principled stance on AI safety and responsible development. Apple has always positioned itself as the company that cares about how technology affects people. Those values aren’t identical, but they rhyme.

Sparks sees alignment, whereas I see entanglement. It’s the not the $380 billion valuation that’s the deal-breaker, it’s the myriad of contracts and programs that Anthropic is involved with. Anthropic said no to the Pentagon. Apple would have rolled over.