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The Projection

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Money

Anthropic IPO

Reported confidential IPO filing at ~$965B (single-source — thin, needs a second source) plus an IR-director hire read as fall-2026 prep. Track: filing confirmation or flip-to-public, valuation vs the $965B print, and how the Opus 5 cycle + the AMD/Azure/Google-TPU compute deals get positioned in the roadshow narrative.

STATUS · OPEN OPENED · 2026-07-27 LAST SEEN · 2026-07-25
Anthropic

2026-07-25 — Reported confidential filing ⟨daily 2026-07-25⟩

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