Anthropic’s Pre-IPO Filing Is the Scariest Thing You’ll Read This Halloween Season
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Just in time for the beginning of Halloween week, Anthropic dropped a 318-page filing for prospective investors considering joining its much-anticipated IPO in the coming days—a bone-chilling document no matter how you slice it. If you’re an AI skeptic in the vein of Ed Zitron, who believes the bubble’s well on its way to bursting, then the company’s reported loss of nearly $81 billion in the first half of 2026 will scare your socks off. Or maybe you’re an existential-risk doomer, in which case you’ll find plenty to be afraid of in the 97-page “Risk Factors” section, featuring totally normal investor warnings such as “sufficiently advanced AI systems could pose catastrophic or existential risks to society if not developed and deployed responsibly.” Given that I’m somebody who’s covered these companies…
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