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06/02/2026

Anthropic Quietly Files for I.P.O., Signaling a New Peak for the A.I. Boom

Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering after a $65 billion funding round that valued it near $1 trillion, intensifying a high-stakes race with OpenAI and other would-be tech giants.

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Anthropic, the maker of the Claude chatbot, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering after a $65 billion funding round that valued it near $1 trillion, intensifying a high-stakes race with OpenAI and other would-be tech giants.

06/01/2026

The company said Monday it has filed confidentially for an IPO.

06/01/2026

Anthropic said it has confidentially filed for a $1tn-plus initial public offering on Monday, setting up a three-way race with OpenAI and SpaceX.

https://www.ft.com/content/4f82f41c-24e7-4323-899a-17a04badd29e

The AI company closed a $65bn funding round last week valuing it at $900bn

05/29/2026

Anthropic Raises $65 Billion, Pushing Valuation Near $1 Trillion Ahead of IPO

Anthropic said it raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation in what could be its last private round before an IPO, as investors intensify their bets on frontier A.I. models and the infrastructure behind them.

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Anthropic said it raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation in what could be its last private round before an IPO, as investors intensify their bets on frontier A.I. models and the infrastructure behind them.

05/20/2026

Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI Co-Founder and Former Tesla AI Lead, Joins Anthropic

Andrej Karpathy said he is joining Anthropic to work on pretraining research for the company’s Claude models, marking another high-profile talent move in the intensifying AI arms race.

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Andrej Karpathy said he is joining Anthropic to work on pretraining research for the company’s Claude models, marking another high-profile talent move in the intensifying AI arms race.

05/16/2026

SpaceX has reportedly accelerated its IPO timeline and is now targeting a June 12 Nasdaq debut under the ticker SPCX, with the offering expected to raise roughly $75 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation that would make it the largest IPO in history

Elon Musk's rocket and satellite maker ​SpaceX is aiming to list its shares as early as June 12 and has picked the Nasdaq as the ‌trading venue for its blockbuster market debut, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.

05/15/2026

Cerebras Debuts With a Bang, as Shares More Than Double in 2026’s First Major Tech IPO

Cerebras raised $5.5 billion in its long-awaited initial public offering, then surged 108% on its first day of trading—an emphatic return of investor appetite for big AI hardware bets.

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Cerebras raised $5.5 billion in its long-awaited initial public offering, then surged 108% on its first day of trading—an emphatic return of investor appetite for big AI hardware bets.

04/15/2026

Anthropic has received multiple offers from ​venture capital firms in recent weeks to invest ‌in the Claude maker at valuations as high as $800 billion, more than double its current value

Anthropic has received multiple offers from ​venture capital firms in recent weeks to invest ‌in the Claude maker at valuations as high as $800 billion, more than double its current value, Business Insider reported ​on Tuesday, citing sources.

04/07/2026

Anthropic says its annualized revenue has surged past $30 billion, up from $9 billion at the end of last year.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-06/broadcom-confirms-deal-to-ship-google-tpu-chips-to-anthropic/

Anthropic PBC said its revenue run rate has now topped $30 billion, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025, and confirmed plans to work with Broadcom Inc. and Google to power its burgeoning operations.

03/18/2026

Tools for Humanity, the startup behind Sam Altman’s World project, has released a beta tool called AgentKit that lets websites verify a human is behind AI shopping agents using its iris-based World ID and a blockchain payment protocol

As AI agents take the reins for online shoppers, Sam Altman's unconventional startup is looking to expand its verification offerings to support agentic commerce.