Anthropic Files to Go Public

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🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, saying the ChatGPT company knowingly released an unsafe product. And Barry Diller’s People Inc. makes a bid for MGM Resorts. Alex Ossola hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall.
0:05.0	It challenges all sorts of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand.
0:11.3	That's Jason Gersatus, CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of A.Gentic AI.
0:17.9	Join him later to learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries.
0:26.0	Here's your midday brief for Monday, June 1st. I'm Alex O'SA.f for the Wall Street Journal.
0:32.1	AI company Anthropic says it has filed confidential paperwork for an initial public offering.
0:37.4	The filing could put the company behind the AI model Claude on a path to go public this fall.
0:42.4	Anthropics said in a blog post today that its plans will depend on market conditions and other factors.
0:47.6	Anthropic is valued at $965 billion, and it's recently emerged as a frontrunner in the AI wars.
0:54.0	Elon Musk's SpaceX is preparing for what's likely to be the largest IPO ever next week.
0:58.9	And the Wall Street Journal has reported that Anthropics' chief rival OpenAI is preparing to file for its own IPO very soon.
1:06.3	Speaking of OpenAI, Florida's Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against the company and its CEO Sam Altman, becoming the first state to do so.
1:14.3	The suit argues that the company knowingly released an unsafe product and ignored warnings that it could harm users.
1:20.4	OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, didn't immediately comment on the suit.
1:24.7	It has previously denied wrongdoing, and OpenAI has said that it's
1:28.0	strengthening its safeguards. The legal action follows a criminal investigation opened by the Florida
1:32.9	Attorney General over ChatGBTGT's role in a mass shooting last year at Florida State University.
1:38.6	News Corp, owner of the Wall Street Journal, has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI.
1:44.0	And Barry Dealer's People, Inc. is offering to buy the rest of casino giant MGM resorts in a deal
1:49.5	valuing the company at around $12.4 billion. In a letter to MGM's board today, Diller said
1:55.6	the company's assets aren't realizing their full potential in the public markets. People
2:00.0	Inc., which is largely a publishing
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