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TNB Tech Minute: Anthropic Files For IPO

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Florida sues OpenAI over AI harms. And Uber plans to launch a robotaxi program in Munich. Julie Chang hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your afternoon, TNB Tech Minute, for Monday, June 1st. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal.

0:28.2

Anthropic has filed confidentially for an initial public offering that could put the AI

0:33.2

lab, which is valued at $965 billion, on a path to go public this fall, setting up a blockbuster year for IPOs.

0:42.9

This move intensifies the race with rival OpenAI, which is also preparing to file.

0:48.4

Banks have told both companies that whoever makes it to market first will get to define the new

0:53.0

industry and have first dibs

0:55.1

on the large pools of cash eager to back new AI companies. Anthropics said in a blog post today

1:00.7

that its plans will depend on market conditions and other factors. Because it filed confidentially,

1:06.3

most investors will have to wait until closer to the IPO to see details of the company's business,

1:11.7

including its finances. Meanwhile, Florida has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam

1:18.6

Altman, alleging the company knowingly released an unsafe product and ignored warnings that it could

1:24.3

harm users. The suit claims OpenAI allowed ChatGPT to aid and abet mass

1:29.6

shooters, encouraged suicide, degraded critical thinking, and addicted minors. OpenAI didn't

1:35.8

immediately comment on the suit. The company has previously denied wrongdoing and has said the

1:41.2

company continues to strengthen its safeguards. News Corp, owner of the

1:45.2

Wall Street Journal, has a content licensing partnership with Open AI. And Uber plans to launch a

1:51.9

robotaxy program in the German city of Munich. Under the plan, the Wright Hill company will

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