Anthropic Warns Investors to Avoid Certain Secondary Markets (1)

Anthropic PBC identified a number of secondary marketplaces as unauthorized sellers of the company’s shares, telling investors that buying the stock won’t work.

The company had previously warned investors in a blog postabout “stock scams” issuing fraudulent share certificates in the private artificial intelligence developer. On Tuesday, Anthropic updated the post to name eight different firms offering access to unauthorized shares “in violation of our transfer restrictions.”

The creator of Claude is one of the most coveted companies in the booming, largely unregulated market. Secondary markets allow employees and early investors to sell shares of private firms. These transactions ...