Anthropic’s Claude gets a wallet radar—just as Pompliano says it went snooping 💸

Anthropic launched a personal finance feature for Claude on Thursday, allowing U.S. subscribers on the Pro, Max, and Ultra plans to connect bank and credit card accounts and ask the chatbot about spending, bills, and remaining balances. The rollout came with allegations from crypto investor Anthony Pompliano, who accused Anthropic of seeking inside information from his competing startup, Silvia, months before the announcement.

The beta feature uses Plaid to handle bank logins, giving Claude read-only access to approved financial data without requiring users to share account passwords. Anthropic said the assistant can summarize spending, identify duplicate charges and unexpected fees, explain interest payments, and create charts or bill calendars. “Access is read-only, and Claude can't move, manage, or invest your money,” Anthropic wrote on X. “Like the rest of Claude, Personal Finance has no ads or sponsored recommendations,” the company added.

Claude can access balances, credit limits, account names and types, the last four digits of account numbers, and up to 24 months of transactions from accounts users approve. Anthropic’s documentation states that conversations in the Personal Finance hub are not used to train its models, while also warning that account balances may lag and AI-generated figures should be checked against bank records.

Pompliano, whose Silvia product bills itself as a personal AI chief financial officer, claimed on X that Anthropic personnel began approaching Silvia engineers in April. “Anthropic was fishing for details on how we built our product and why it was so popular,” he wrote. He also described an alleged steak dinner involving Anthropic representatives, saying someone told the Silvia team that the meal was on CEO Dario Amodei’s tab. Pompliano claimed his engineers refused to disclose sensitive information and that someone at Anthropic warned his team about the launch days beforehand.

Anthropic also reported lower revenue offsets and sharply higher computing costs in an amended SEC filing. It said revenue growth from increased usage was “partially offset by a decrease of approximately $600 million from price reductions introduced as part of new model versions and contractual discounts.” Compute and infrastructure expenses rose from $5.56 billion to $9.86 billion, an increase of roughly 77%.