San Francisco, United States, Oct 28, 2026 (AFP) - Anthropic's record IPO faces some big questions

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2026-10-28
No startup has ever grown so fast. In five years, Anthropic has become an AI giant valued at $1 trillion, and it is now aiming for a record-breaking stock market debut. But it faces three threats: rivals that are catching up, prices that are collapsing, and bills that keep climbing. Anthropic spells out the risks in its Wall Street prospectus, published Monday. The first is commoditization: "the degree of differentiation among advanced AI models......
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