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An IPO sells shares in a company. An ICO sells tokens from a crypto project. That line captures the surface difference, but the part that matters to anyone putting money in lives one layer down: in ...

Anthropic, the AI lab behind Claude, has filed confidentially for an initial public offering, the company said in a blog post Monday. The company, which is valued at close to $1 trillion, submitted a ...

Anthropic's IPO could reshape US equity markets and boost the sluggish IPO market Analyst says Anthropic aims to beat OpenAI to public markets for strategic advantage Anthropic's valuation has surged, ...

Anthropic on Monday said it filed plans for an initial public offering, setting it up for a share sale that could value the company in the trillion-dollar range as it races against rival OpenAI. The ...

OpenAI targets up to $1 trillion valuation, IPO could come as early as September, source says Rival Anthropic and SpaceX also pursue IPOs, intensifying competition for investor capital Jury ruled ...