😺 Anthropic's IPO could top SpaceX's record

California is trying again with SB 947, a bill that would ban employers from letting AI fire or discipline workers without a human signing off. Newsom vetoed an earlier version last October, but lawmakers reintroduced it as the "No Robo Bosses Act of 2026."

The stakes are already real. At Andon Market in San Francisco, an AI agent named Luna runs hiring, scheduling, and pricing. She recently recommended firing a worker who missed 17 of 23 shifts. Humans carried it out. Only problem? Luna had written the store's attendance policy herself, then forgot it existed until someone told her to go check her memory.

The AI boss is coming. It still needs a better filing system.

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You've probably used Claude to draft an email, debug a script, or automate half your job this month. Turns out enough other people have too that Anthropic might be about to pull off the biggest stock market debut ever.

Here's the deal: Anthropic's bankers have told investors the company could raise "more than $100 billion" when it goes public, according to the New York Times. That would put its value near $2 trillion, more than double the $965 billion it was worth after its last private funding round in June.

Here's what happened:

Why this matters: Claude Code, Anthropic's coding assistant, has become one of its most popular products and helped push the company's projected annual revenue to $47 billion. That's a five-year-old startup founded by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, both former OpenAI executives, betting its safety-focused approach to AI can out-earn (and now out-IPO) the company they left.

An IPO this size would also settle an argument that's been simmering all year: whether the "safety-first" lab can actually out-compete the "move fast" one. So far, the money says yes.

Our take: The hype has a couple of asterisks. Anthropic has struggled to get enough chips and servers to keep up with demand, and in March, the Trump administration cut off its Defense Department contracts entirely after Anthropic refused to give the military unrestricted access to its models (Anthropic called the move "unconstitutional retaliation"). A record-breaking IPO and a fight with your own government's biggest customer don't usually show up in the same earnings call.

Anthropic's prospectus should tell us which story is closer to true.

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