2026-06-02
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Anthropic, maker of the chatbot Claude, confidentially filed for an initial public offering.
The firm, which was valued at $900 billion last week,
said the filing, quote, gives us the option to eventually go public.
SpaceX, which owns Grok and reportedly OpenAI, are already preparing IPO plans.
Earlier, Anthropic gave the EU's cybersecurity agency access to its latest mythos model.
According to Bloomberg, Iran is stopping the exchange of messages