> That’s $15 billion a year in compute costs, but reduced to an indeterminately-discounted level for the precise months that Anthropic is using to tell investors and the media that it has an operating profit. That operating profit is a result of accountancy rather than any improvements to its business model.

> While I wouldn’t say this is cooking the books, it’s definitely a shiatsu-grade massaging of the numbers. Anthropic has deliberately leaked a quarterly “profit” where it knows it can suppress its costs

https://www.wheresyoured.at/anthropics-profitability-swindle...

It turns out, there are many ways to skin a financial cat.

If you can write the laws, nothing is illegal. This argument isn't as strong as you think it is.