AI giant Anthropic warns its technology could pose 'catastrophic or existential risks to humanity' in filing for blockbuster IPO
Anthropic's quarterly revenue hit $16.8bn in Q3 2026, up 45% on the previous quarter, as the company filed a 335-page prospectus to list its shares.Dario Amodei leads Anthropic, which filed to float on the US stock market on Monday at a valuation exceeding $1.5tn.
The Claude maker warns its chatbots have shown 'self-preserving behaviors', including resisting shutdown and 'behavior resembling blackmail'. A full 93 of the prospectus's 335 pages are devoted to risk factors. Anthropic lost $80.7bn in the first half of this year, double its losses for all of 2025. Marketing could start as soon as November 9, ahead of a Nasdaq listing under the ticker 'ANT'.
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Each of the seven co-founders could be worth up to $29bn after the listing.
The company is targeted by spies posing as job applicants under false identities, the filing warns.
