There's a bit of Chinese whispers happening here. If you read the original piece they're talking about -- https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/07/31/a

There's a bit of Chinese whispers happening here. If you read the original piece they're talking about -- https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/07/31/amazon-q2-earnings-strong-results-much-baloney-in-press-release-corey-quinn/5281486 https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/07/31/amazon-... (definitely worth a read, it's hilarious) -- you'll realize it means that that Anthropic dollar is "counted" multiple times in the marketing of three different Amazon businesses. As far as accounting of revenue is concerned, it would have been counted as appropriate. Else, like you, I would guess it's not very legal.