Vol. I · NOV 13, 2026

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Developing story

Anthropic IPO

The story so far — 49 entries, MAY 23, 2026 to NOV 12, 2026.

  1. MAY 23, 2026 · No. 5 · Lead story

    Anthropic set to hit $10.9 billion in revenue during second quarter, source says

    CNBC

  2. MAY 27, 2026 · No. 9 · Lead story

    Anthropic to Close Over $30 Billion Round as Soon as Next Week

    Bloomberg

  3. JUN 2, 2026 · No. 15 · Lead story

    Anthropic confidentially files IPO prospectus with SEC, prepping Wall Street for landmark AI deal

    CNBC

  4. JUN 11, 2026 · No. 24 · Lead story

    $960 Billion: Anthropic Beats OpenAI to the IPO Filing

    Yahoo Finance

  5. JUL 16, 2026 · No. 55 · Lead story

    Anthropic moves closer to a mega-IPO as bankers line up investor meetings

    CNBC

  6. AUG 14, 2026 · No. 87

    Anthropic's CFO starts quietly meeting IPO investors

    Krishna Rao is running early investor-education sessions ahead of a possible October listing, though valuation — some investors whisper $2 trillion — hasn't come up yet.

    CNBC

  7. AUG 16, 2026 · No. 89 · Lead story

    Anthropic investors are eyeing a $2 trillion valuation for an October IPO

    Forbes

  8. AUG 16, 2026 · Edition · Lead story

    Anthropic investors are eyeing a $2 trillion valuation for an October IPO

    Forbes

  9. AUG 22, 2026 · No. 95 · Lead story

    Anthropic expects its IPO to match or top SpaceX's record debut

    Bloomberg

  10. AUG 23, 2026 · No. 96

    Anthropic set to add Citigroup to its top IPO banks

    Citi joins Morgan Stanley, Goldman and JPMorgan on a listing Anthropic is reportedly weighing filing for as soon as the end of August.

    Bloomberg

  11. AUG 25, 2026 · No. 98 · Lead story

    Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive

    PYMNTS (via Financial Times)

  12. AUG 26, 2026 · No. 99 · Lead story

    Anthropic pitches IPO investors a $30 trillion market opportunity

    Quartz

  13. AUG 28, 2026 · No. 101

    Anthropic eyes $1.5–2T valuation, prospectus expected after Labor Day

    The IPO would top SpaceX's record raise and may let existing shareholders sell shares alongside the company — an unusual structure for a debut this size.

    The Information (via AOL)

  14. AUG 31, 2026 · No. 103 · Lead story

    Anthropic weighs shareholder stock sales in bid to top SpaceX's IPO

    Tech Startups

  15. SEP 4, 2026 · No. 109 · Lead story

    Anthropic plans to unveil its IPO prospectus after Labor Day

    The Motley Fool

  16. SEP 4, 2026 · No. 109

    Anthropic commits $35B to Lambda for compute it hasn't raised

    The latest in a stack of compute deals now totaling roughly $140 billion — sized against projected demand, not revenue in hand, which is exactly why the IPO can't wait.

    Yahoo Finance

  17. SEP 5, 2026 · No. 104

    Anthropic plans a mid-September investor day ahead of its IPO prospectus

    The company is set to make its S-1 public after Labor Day, targeting a listing as soon as late September.

    Crypto Briefing

  18. SEP 6, 2026 · No. 105 · Lead story

    Anthropic's IPO timeline slips from right after Labor Day to mid-October

    CNBC

  19. SEP 6, 2026 · Edition · Lead story

    Anthropic's IPO timeline slips from right after Labor Day to mid-October

    CNBC

  20. SEP 7, 2026 · No. 110 · Lead story

    Anthropic's IPO timeline slips again, toward a late-September filing and mid-October roadshow

    The Motley Fool

  21. SEP 8, 2026 · No. 111 · Lead story

    Anthropic walks away from a $6 billion deal to buy Decart

    Bloomberg

  22. SEP 14, 2026 · No. 112 · Lead story

    Nvidia in talks to anchor up to $10 billion of Anthropic's IPO

    24/7 Wall St.

  23. SEP 15, 2026 · No. 113 · Lead story

    Anthropic picks Nasdaq for a $2 trillion IPO — the same week it signs a Trump-linked compute deal

    Tech Times

  24. SEP 17, 2026 · No. 115

    As Anthropic heads toward a $2 trillion IPO, its loudest critics are company insiders

    Even as bankers prep a record listing, current and former staff are the ones publicly questioning whether the company is moving too fast.

    Fortune

  25. SEP 19, 2026 · No. 125

    Anthropic's revenue run-rate blows past $100B ahead of a possible November IPO

    Annualized revenue reportedly jumped 50% in two months to over $100B, setting up what could be the largest IPO ever at close to a $2 trillion valuation.

    Axios

  26. SEP 21, 2026 · No. 119

    Anthropic pushes its roughly $2 trillion IPO from October to November

    The company's advisers want to present Q3 results before pricing, per the Journal, as competitive pressure and uninsured cybersecurity risk cloud the timeline.

    WSJ via StreetInsider

  27. SEP 28, 2026 · No. 136 · Lead story

    Anthropic commits $11.6 billion to Akamai for cloud compute

    TechCrunch

  28. SEP 28, 2026 · No. 136

    Anthropic's IPO reportedly slips from October to November

    Advisers reportedly want an extra quarter of financials to show investors before pricing what could be a $2 trillion listing.

    The Motley Fool

  29. OCT 3, 2026 · No. 139 · Lead story

    Anthropic targets November IPO as revenue surges

    PYMNTS

  30. OCT 15, 2026 · No. 149 · Lead story

    Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO

    Simon Willison's Weblog (citing the FT)

  31. OCT 18, 2026 · Edition · Lead story

    Anthropic tells investors quarterly revenue up nearly 50% to $16.8bn ahead of IPO

    Simon Willison

  32. OCT 19, 2026 · No. 153 · Lead story

    Anthropic says it's committing 5% of its shares to a 'public benefit fund'

    TechCrunch

  33. OCT 21, 2026 · No. 157 · Lead story

    Anthropic's cloud partnerships are getting messy

    TechCrunch

  34. OCT 21, 2026 · No. 157

    Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about half as much of Anthropic as Dario Amodei

    Pre-IPO disclosures put the former Google CEO's stake at roughly half the size of Amodei's.

    TechCrunch

  35. OCT 26, 2026 · No. 162 · Lead story

    Anthropic S-1

    SEC EDGAR

  36. OCT 27, 2026 · No. 163

    Anthropic's IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked

    Over half of $100K-plus customers now use both the API and a first-party app, up from about 30% at the end of 2025.

    TechCrunch

  37. OCT 28, 2026 · No. 164 · Lead story

    VCs will make billions on Anthropic's IPO, but Amazon is set to make much (much) more

    TechCrunch

  38. OCT 28, 2026 · No. 164 · Lead story

    Who's really in charge at Anthropic after the IPO?

    TechCrunch

  39. OCT 29, 2026 · No. 165 · Lead story

    Anthropic just launched tools to show companies what their AI spending is buying

    TechCrunch

  40. OCT 31, 2026 · No. 167 · Lead story

    Anthropic expected to receive high 'junk' rating from credit agencies following IPO, FT report says

    TechCrunch

  41. OCT 31, 2026 · No. 167 · Lead story

    Nvidia weighs playing the cosigner for Nscale's AI data center in West Virginia

    TechCrunch

  42. OCT 31, 2026 · No. 167

    Why Anthropic's filing crushed tech stocks

    A guest essay argues Anthropic's S-1 exposes how tangled Amazon, Google and Microsoft are with it, as investor, lender, supplier and customer.

    BIG

  43. NOV 3, 2026 · No. 172 · Lead story

    Anthropic warns that it's very close to RSI capability, aka self-building AI

    TechCrunch

  44. NOV 4, 2026 · No. 173 · Lead story

    Anthropic is still grappling with the economics of compute

    TechCrunch

  45. NOV 7, 2026 · No. 176 · Lead story

    Ramp data shows AI spending stalling just as Anthropic nears its IPO

    TechCrunch

  46. NOV 10, 2026 · No. 179 · Lead story

    Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share to reach an implied valuation of $1.404 trillion

    TechCrunch

  47. NOV 10, 2026 · No. 179 · Lead story

    Anthropic joins AI's natural gas frenzy, buys $3.4B worth of turbines

    TechCrunch

  48. NOV 11, 2026 · No. 180

    All 7 Anthropic founders will each cash out about $250M in IPO

    Each co-founder sells 3,378,378 shares; together they keep 51.1% of votes through Class F supervoting stock, and Reed Hastings plans a $300M purchase.

    TechCrunch

  49. NOV 12, 2026 · No. 181 · Lead story

    Anthropic's IPO roadshow video

    Simon Willison

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