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AI safety research group METR published a report Thursday after an 11-week investigation inside Anthropic, finding that the company's AI models are improving roughly twice as fast as they were a year ago. The report, part of an evaluation of Anthropic's AI research and development practices, notes Anthropic was allowed to redact portions of the final document under their agreement.
In a perspective piece, Matt Scherer, co-author of a report on AI financial risk, argues the SEC should block Anthropic's upcoming initial public offering. He points to the company's IPO registration statement, which discloses nearly $900 billion in spending commitments extending into the 2030s alongside unaudited 2026 financials showing revenue growth slowing sharply in the third quarter.
TechCrunch released a roundup of improvised Halloween costume suggestions aimed at people in the tech world, including dressing as 'recursive self-improvement' and as 'a deceptively cute AI agent' modeled on Meta and OpenAI's new avatar-based assistants. The piece pokes fun at AI industry trends, referencing figures like Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elizabeth Holmes as cultural touchstones for the costume ideas.
Anthropic's S-1 filing disclosed $16.29 billion in first-half 2026 revenue against $2.38 billion in cost of revenue, implying an 85% gross margin, with CEO Dario Amodei and six co-founders each holding over 200 million shares. However, the filing showed revenue growth slowing sharply from about 144% quarter-over-quarter in Q2 to roughly 47% in Q3, and did not detail per-dollar computing costs or management's outlook on the slowdown.
As Anthropic nears a potential IPO, its corporate structure gives public stock buyers minimal influence over company decisions. The company operates as a public benefit corporation and has created a Long Term Benefit Trust that controls the election and removal of a majority of board seats, known as Class T directors. Current board members include Daniela and Dario Amodei, Reed Hastings, Christopher Liddell, Vas Narasimhan, and Yasmin Razavi, while the trust is chaired by Neil Shah and includes Ben Bernanke, Richard Fontaine, and Christopher Stubbs.
In its IPO filing, Anthropic acknowledged it lacks experience in physical lab experimentation and drug development, even as it continues to tout AI's potential to compress decades of scientific progress into years. The filing softened earlier claims about a 'Crispr-like' enzyme discovered by its Claude model, now describing it only as something that 'might have the potential' to become a gene-editing tool.
Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI staff including CEO Dario Amodei, is said to be preparing for a possible public listing as soon as before Thanksgiving. The company continues to frame its mission around building AI safety features alongside capability from the outset, and is presenting that safety-first positioning as part of its public case for leading the market.
Anthropic filed a 335-page prospectus on Monday for a Wall Street listing expected next month, ahead of rival OpenAI's planned 2026 debut. The filing shows rapid revenue growth but no profitability yet, with reports suggesting the offering could raise as much as $100 billion, potentially making it the largest IPO on record.
Anthropic's initial public offering prospectus, made public Monday, devotes more than 90 pages to risk factors, including the possibility its AI models could pose 'catastrophic or existential risks to humanity.' The filing also cites tensions with the Trump administration and growing public opposition to data centers, which Anthropic depends on to train and run its models, as business risks ahead of the midterm elections.
Anthropic has filed to go public in a deal that could rank among the largest IPOs ever, with investors reportedly valuing the Claude maker in the trillions of dollars. The filing comes as the five-year-old company posted over $80 billion in losses for the first half of the year alongside a 14-fold jump in revenue, while rival OpenAI has only confidentially filed and isn't expected to debut until 2027.
Anthropic officially filed for an initial public offering on Monday, planning to trade under the ticker 'ANT.' Its SEC filing shows first-half 2026 revenue of $16.3 billion, up from $1.2 billion a year earlier, alongside an operating loss of $693 million and a net loss of $80.7 billion driven largely by noncash accounting charges tied to convertible debt. The filing also details Anthropic's enterprise customer base and a governance structure giving its seven co-founders 50.1% of voting power through a 'Founder LLC.'
A draft IPO prospectus reviewed by the Wall Street Journal shows Anthropic posted an $80 billion net loss for the first six months of 2026, up sharply from $13 billion in the same period a year earlier. Revenue over that span rose only modestly, from roughly $15.2 billion to $16.3 billion, while the company has also committed to about $450 billion in cloud computing infrastructure spending over the next seven to ten years.