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Anthropic walks away from the ~$6bn Decart acquisition weeks before its expected IPO, closing a ledger entry that had stood silent since 09-04

2026-09-07 · part of Anthropic IPO

What happened

Anthropic walked away from its roughly $6 billion acquisition of the Israeli AI startup Decart, weeks before its own expected IPO. Bloomberg reported the withdrawal first, at 02:02Z; Calcalist — the Israeli outlet that broke the original deal report on 08-09 — confirmed it 90 minutes later, followed by Ynetnews, The Next Web, Silicon Republic and PYMNTS. Coverage describes it as scuttled outright, not paused or delayed. ⚠️ Every one of those bylines traces back to the same single Bloomberg scoop, and neither Anthropic nor Decart has confirmed it. This closes attention/upcoming.yaml's decart-acquisition-close ledger entry as withdrawn, after it had stood passed-silent with its grace period expired since 09-04 — and the entry itself had named two different buyers over its life, SpaceX first and then Anthropic. Twenty-two days after coverage had put early-September completion odds "high," the deal is dead instead — a materially different outcome from the silence the ledger had been carrying, and it lands as Anthropic's IPO preparation (the credit facility, the trust-governance scrutiny, the S-1 timing) is the active story on this thread. (Calcalist, Bloomberg, Ynetnews)

Sources 2

Calcalist calcalistech.com unrated
Ynetnews ynetnews.com solid 0.8

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The wider story

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