Anthropic Plans November IPO Staging as AI Safety Debate Intensifies

Anthropic plans to stage its initial public offering in November, pushing back a timetable that some investors had expected in October, as the Claude maker tries to enter public markets amid fast revenue growth and renewed scrutiny over AI safety. The planned debut could test whether public investors are ready to value a frontier-model company like a megacap technology platform while its leaders and peers are calling for more caution in deploying increasingly capable systems.