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TNB Tech Minute: Anthropic Teams Up with Wall Street Firms for $1.5 Billion Joint Venture

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

Tech News, News

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Plus: Chip startup Cerebras Systems sets IPO price. And GameStop makes an unsolicited $56 billion offer to buy eBay. Imani Moise hosts. 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. It challenges all sorts

0:06.5

of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand. That's Jason Gersatus,

0:12.6

CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of Agenic AI. Join him later to

0:19.0

learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries.

0:24.4

Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Monday, May 4th. I'm Imani Moise for the Wall Street Journal.

0:30.9

We exclusively report that Anthropic is finalizing a $1.5 billion joint venture with several major

0:36.5

U.S. Wall Street firms. People familiar with

0:38.9

the matter say Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman and Freeman, each plan to invest about $300 million,

0:44.9

while Goldman Sachs is set to contribute $150 million. General Atlantic, Leonard Green, Apollo

0:51.4

Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital are also involved.

0:55.5

The joint ventures expected to act as a consulting arm for Anthropic to help businesses integrate AI across their operations.

1:01.9

Both Anthropic and OpenAI have been targeting private equity-backed companies as prime customers ahead of potential IPOs later this year.

1:09.8

NewsCorp, the owner of the Wall Street Journal,

1:11.6

has a content licensing partnership with Open AI. CHIP startup Cereber Systems is launching an

1:17.6

initial public offering of 28 million shares, priced from $115 to $125 a share. The IPO would raise

1:26.4

$3.5 billion at the upper end of the pricing range.

1:30.1

Cerevers filed paperwork last month to go public after canceling plans for an IPO last October.

1:36.3

The startup is seeing surging demand for its specialized processors, which are designed to run advanced

1:41.2

AI models as companies transition from training to running their models.

1:45.0

And we exclusively report that GameStop chief executive Ryan Cohen has made an unsolicited offer to buy e-commerce giant eBay for $56 billion.

1:55.0

Cohen said GameStop has built a roughly 5% stake in the company, and the company delivered an offer

2:01.5

letter to eBay on Sunday. Cohen said he plans to combine GameStop's physical stores with

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