{
  "id": 16660147,
  "title": "The feds made $627 million selling Anthropic stock from SBF's friends — but could have made billions",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/the-feds-made-627-million-selling-anthropic-stock-from-sbfs-friends",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-26T20:58:59.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-government-sold-anthropic-shares-sam-bankman-fried-friends-2026-10"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Last year, the federal government seized shares in Anthropic, an AI company, from associates of Sam Bankman-Fried, a crypto fraudster. The government then sold those shares for $627 million, a significant windfall. However, if Anthropic had gone public at a $1.5 trillion valuation, those shares would be worth nearly $4 billion. The federal government could have made billions more had it held onto the shares. The seizure of the shares involved a complex criminal forfeiture process and the subsequent sale by the US Marshals Service. The shares were acquired through the company's 2022 Series B fundraising round by Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh, two executives from Bankman-Fried's defunct companies. Despite the government's significant profit from the sale, the exact investors who purchased the shares from the federal government are unclear.",
  "summary": "The US government sold $627 million in Anthropic shares after seizing them from Sam Bankman-Fried's friends. Its windfall could have been even bigger.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Fortune",
        "title": "Anthropic’s S-1 makes clear it’s on the hook for billions in compute. Its customers can walk at any time",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/26/anthropics-s-1-makes-clear-its-on-the-hook-for-billions-in-compute",
        "published": "2026-10-26T20:30:59.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}