Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_
Anthropic's bankers are telling potential investors that it may raise over $100 billion in its initial public offering at a valuation of $2 trillion, exceeding SpaceX and making it the largest IPO of all time.
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In recent discussions with potential investors, Anthropic's bankers said the San Francisco company could seek to raise more than $100 billion in its initial public offering, two people with knowledge of the conversations said. The offering could also value the company at $2 trillion, said the people, who were not authorized to speak publicly about confidential conversations.
If successful, Anthropic, which was founded just five years ago, would issue the largest-ever public offering. It would exceed Elon Musk's SpaceX, which went public in June at a value of $1.77 trillion and raised $85.7 billion. It would also be a major leap forward for Anthropic, which was valued at $900 billion in a private fund-raising round this year and filed in June to go public.
3:39 PM · Aug 22, 2026 · 89.8K Views
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Tweet by Andrew Curran reporting that Anthropic's IPO bankers are telling investors the company could raise over $100 billion at a $2 trillion valuation, which would exceed SpaceX's June IPO and be the largest IPO ever.
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AI Notkilleveryoneis... ✔️ @AISafet... · 7h
"How worried should you be based on recent events?
Well, the world's top forecasters now "recommend readers consider moving their funds from European financial institutions."
Why? They're more insecure compared to large American institutions, which have access to the latest AI models to faster patch their vulnerabilities with.
"Our sources tell us that Banco Santander, in particular, is riddled with security gaps."
Sentinel is one of my favorite newsletters, btw. Written by top forecasters, they deeply analyze current events to make probabilistic assessments of the likelihood of various things spiraling into global catastrophe. It's my "early-warning newsletter". sentinel-team .org"
[Embedded screenshot of "Sentinel" newsletter, partially highlighted in blue:]
"A "combination" of OpenAI models was revealed to be behind the cybersecurity breach at Hugging Face, which we reported on last week. It appears that the model(s) broke out of the sandbox that OpenAI had built and broke into Hugging Face in an attempt to cheat on the test it was being given.
Cheating behaviour and reward hacking more broadly have been observed before by frontier AI labs, METR, and the UK's AI Security Institute (which published a report on the subject this week), but many of our forecasters are still surprised by the scale and audacity of the Hugging Face incident.
Still, we think it's extremely unlikely that there will be any legal consequences for OpenAI, giving just a 2.6% (1% to 9%) chance that the company or any of its directors, officers, or employees will be arrested, charged, penalized, or subjected to formal regulatory or criminal enforcement action before 2028.
[highlighted:] Some forecasters recommend that readers consider taking the precautionary steps of moving their funds away from European financial institutions, which are going to be more insecure, and into large American institutions, which have access to the latest AI models to faster patch their vulnerabilities with. Our sources tell us that Banco Santander, in particular, is riddled with security gaps, which would make sense in light of its fast expansion.
In somewhat related news, Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu joined with 7 Republican Congressman Nathaniel Moran to introduce a bill, the AI Kill Switch Act, into the US..." [cut off]
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Tweet promoting the "Sentinel" forecasting newsletter, with an embedded screenshot of the newsletter itself; a portion of the newsletter text is highlighted in blue (about moving funds from European to American banks) with an edit/pencil icon overlay suggesting active annotation.
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LaurieWired @lauriewired · 13h
A crazy mental trick is to map complex concepts onto regions the brain is "primed" for (Chernoff).
The most hilarious example I've seen is…multivariate portfolio data on cartoon fish.
Analysts would thus look for the "weird fish" in the aquarium.
[Image left: "Characteristics Legend / ...ctor Information" diagram labeled "Detailed Chernoff Fish" showing a fish-shaped glyph encoding Region (Americas/Asia/EU/Africa & Middle East), Style (Value/Core/Growth), Performance, Market cap categories via fin/body shape. Image right: two example cartoon fish pairs labeled "Long" (blue) and "Short" (orange) with varying fin heights and body sizes representing different data values.]
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A data-visualization curiosity about "Chernoff fish" — a Chernoff-faces-style technique encoding multivariate financial portfolio data as cartoon fish shapes so analysts can visually spot outliers. General data-viz/cognitive-science interest tweet, not directly AI-safety related.
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