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Yet, according to Anthropic’s S-1, none of those VC firms owns 5%, the threshold for being included in the principal stockholders’ table. That’s highly unusual. In a typical tech IPO, lead venture investors hold double-digit-percentage stakes in the startups they backed. The reason is Anthropic’s size. At its $965 billion private valuation, a 1% stake is worth nearly $10 billion, so, for example, Menlo’s roughly $14 billion position is only about 1.5% of t

Anthropic opens its books for Wall Street, showing record revenue and mounting obligations Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 26, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Anthropic filed its S-1 for a Nasdaq listing under the ticker "ANT." In Q2 2026, Anthropic pulled in $11.6 billion in revenue and posted its first GAAP operating profit at $974 million. The flip side: long-term compute commitments totaling $7

The proposed arrangement would help Nscale secure financing for the electricity and construction costs of its West Virginia campus. Under what’s known as a residual value guarantee, Nvidia would step in if Nscale defaulted on construction payments, temporarily take over the facility, and help find a buyer and new tenant, according to The Information. Nvidia’s earlier support for cloud providers has mostly covered leases and chip purchases, not construction

Anthropic's $1.5 trillion IPO hits resistance as investors balk at valuation Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 6, 2026 Anthropic's IPO is in trouble as investors push back on the $1.5 trillion valuation and the tech market sells off. According to Reuters, potential backers doubt the planned roadshow can kick off next week as scheduled. As recently as September, the company was eyeing a valuation of up to $2 trillion

Anthropic pushes ahead with pre-Thanksgiving IPO despite tech selloff, accepts lower valuation Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 7, 2026 Anthropic is pressing ahead with its IPO despite the tech selloff, accepting a lower valuation. The Claude developer wants to go public before Thanksgiving and raise $80–100 billion at a $1.25–1.75 trillion valuation, according to investors cited by the Financial Times. That tops the curre

Looking at the compute margins makes the picture even worse. In the new quarter, compute took up 58% of the company’s revenue, up from 48% the quarter before. At a moment when the company could win over IPO investors by showing margins improving, they’re getting worse. A chart in the filing shows this even more clearly, tracking the company’s revenue for every dollar spent on compute. Since the start of 2025, it’s been steadily growing, peaking at just ove

In response to the interviewer’s question about being IPO-ready next year, Brockman replied, “I think so. Yes.” “We’ve been very clear this year that we want to go public when we feel is the right time for us, and I feel extremely good about the business. I feel like we’ve made so much progress this year, and I’ve honestly never felt more confident in what we’re doing,” Brockman said. He detailed how OpenAI’s trajectory as an enterprise had changed over th

Frontier Radar #5: If AGI is so close, why is everyone leaving? The neolabs and their bets Maximilian Schreiner View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 6, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now {

Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2 cement Anthropic's AI lead just before its IPO Matthias Bastian View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Nov 9, 2026 Anthropic Key Points Anthropic is releasing Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2, two new flagship models built for the most demanding technical tasks. Anthropic says it deliberately prevented the models from gaining capabilities during training that could directly accelerate AI development. Fable 5.2 ranks fi

A new report from Ramp shows AI spending flatlined over late summer even as token volumes rose, a sign that price competition and savvier customers may be capping revenue for OpenAI and Anthropic. According to Ramp’s data, token spend only grew 1.5% across August and September. To compare, in July, it grew 42% from the previous month. As Anthropic gears up for its IPO, the data suggests investors might be wrong to assume AI companies will keep growing at b

For the past two years, many of Silicon Valley’s biggest names have built closer ties with President Donald Trump and his administration. Several attended White House events, some companies scaled back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, and some executives donated millions to super PACs supporting his campaign and allied candidates. Administration policies also benefited the industry, including tax breaks, the pausing of some federal investig

Posted Nov 5, 2026 at 10:38 PM UTCEExternal LinkElizabeth LopattoAnd I say, hey-ey-ey, hey-ey-ey, I said, hey, what’s going on?Today I was on the phone with someone who suggested maybe the AI bubble was bursting and that was what was going on with AI stocks. Well, maybe! I don’t know! I’ve seen a lot of attempts to explain why the market was up yesterday and is down today and this is the best one of the bunch.So, about that Anthropic IPO . . .[FT Alphavill

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Please stop asking me when the AI bubble will popI’m getting some real mixed messages here, boys!Emmanuel Roman, chief executive officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. (Pimco), during the Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026. Bloomberg via Getty Images is a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bl

OpenAI valued at $1.25 trillion, as rival Anthropic nears its IPOCEO Sam Altman said recently that OpenAI is prioritizing safety instead of going ‘guns blazing’ toward an IPO.CEO Sam Altman said recently that OpenAI is prioritizing safety instead of going ‘guns blazing’ toward an IPO.Image: The Verge is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.OpenAI is now valu

Zhidx (WeChat official account: zhidxcom) Compiled by | Li Shuiqing Edited by | Xinyuan Zhidx reported on November 9 that, according to the UK's Financial Times, Anthropiccompleted a transaction in late September with OnePWR Solutions, an equipment supplier based in San Antonio, Texas, for $3.4 billion (approximately RMB 22.7 billion), securing a supply of 1.7 gigawatts of heavy-duty generators for data center power. The UK's Financial Times said the deal

With personnel and infrastructure in place, OpenAI bets on team agents. Author | Gao Yunyi Editor | Cen Feng One week after Anthropic filed for an IPO, the head of its most profitable product had already joined the other side.This morning, Cat Wu, the former head of product for Claude Code, announced on X that she was joining OpenAI as the head of product for the core product group.Just a day earlier, she had bid farewell to Anthropic—a virtually seamless