Parmy Olson, Columnist

Anthropic’s Secret Weapon Is Its Manic Productivity

February 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM UTC

Parmy Olson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering technology. A former reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Forbes, she is author of “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World.”

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This week’s $300 billion selloff of software and financial services stocks was apparently sparked by Anthropic PBC, and a new legal product the artificial intelligence startup had released. However pointless you may think it is to attribute market routs to a single trigger, the worry about Anthropic’s disruption puts a spotlight on its seemingly unstoppable productivity.