Anthropic Launches Claude Personal Finance as Pompliano Accuses It of Seeking Silvia's Information

According to ChainCatcher, Anthropic launched Personal Finance for Claude on Thursday as a beta for paid Claude Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers in the United States. Users can connect bank and credit card accounts through Plaid, which handles the login process; Claude receives financial data without access to account passwords. The read-only feature can summarize spending, flag recurring or unusual charges, explain interest costs, and create charts or bill calendars. Anthropic said Claude cannot move, manage or invest users’ money, and the feature has no ads or sponsored recommendations. After the launch, crypto investor Anthony Pompliano accused Anthropic employees of seeking information about his personal finance AI startup, Silvia. He said employees had contacted Silvia engineers since April under the pretext of asking about the company’s growth and computing needs, but were actually probing how its product was built and why it was popular. Pompliano also described a steak dinner allegedly attended by Anthropic representatives and said his team was told CEO Dario Amodei paid for it. He said Silvia’s engineers declined to share sensitive information and that someone at Anthropic warned his team days before the launch that a new product was coming. Pompliano said Silvia’s use of its own models and hardware makes its computing costs about 97% lower than those of frontier AI models. OpenAI introduced a similar bank-account connection feature for ChatGPT in May, also using Plaid for read-only access. Anthropic said it is exploring partnerships with licensed professionals and regulated financial institutions. The beta is currently limited to paid subscribers on the three Claude plans in the United States.