Anthropic filed an S-1 with the SEC to go public, planning to list on Nasdaq under ticker ANT. The filing could set up a Wall Street debut next month and potentially be the biggest IPO ever, eclipsing SpaceX's record $86 billion IPO in June. It would also put Anthropic ahead of OpenAI in going public.
Anthropic is seeking public capital to expand, and its S-1 frames AI as both transformative and dangerous. The filing says AI could accelerate scientific innovation, boost economic growth, and help cure diseases including cancer and Alzheimer's, but it also acknowledges risks such as job displacement, misuse, and “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity.”
Anthropic's IPO filing says AI has the potential to cure major diseases and accelerate scientific discovery, and the company has separate healthcare/life-sciences initiatives.
Anthropic, maker of Claude AI, filed an S-1 with the SEC and plans to list on Nasdaq under ticker ANT.
ABill, the Nasdaq's getting called a crash this morning, but one trader on X just posted the actual scoreboard and it's not what the headlines say.
BOf course it isn't. What's the actual score?
AThe account Only Options Trades points out the S&P 500 is only down about one percent this month, while semiconductors are getting crushed. Their line: 'still A LOT of green across the market.'
BYeah, and the green is in utilities and consumer staples. The stuff that carries the market on a normal day. The semis are the engine, and they're sputtering.
ASo you're saying one percent down is a crash?
BI'm saying the market has become a one-trick pony. AI chips. And when that trade unwinds, the S&P follows. It's just math.
AThat's not math, that's panic. Energy, financials, healthcare — they've been fine. The market is finally rotating out of overvalued tech into things with actual cash flow.
BRotating? That's a polite word for running for the exits. The semis led the index higher for two years, and now they're leading it lower. How is that healthy?
ABecause not everything is a semiconductor. Two-thirds of the economy doesn't make chips. The S&P 500 is not just Nvidia.
BNo, but Nvidia and its friends are almost a third of the index's market cap. When they fall, the whole thing bleeds.
AThey've fallen before. Remember March? The semis dropped double digits and the broad market held up. This is the same play.
BMarch was a blip. This time, the AI spending doubts are everywhere. Morgan Stanley notes, Goldman notes, everyone's asking when the billions pay off.
AThat's the question investors always ask in tech cycles. It doesn't mean the economy is falling apart.
BThe market doesn't wait for the economy to fall apart. It prices the fear first.
AAnd that fear is exactly why the S&P is only down one percent while the Nasdaq looks horrible. The market is sorting itself out.
BOr hiding the damage. We'll see who's right in a week.
BSpeaking of money moving in surprising directions, a Telegram channel called Watcher Guru says Vanguard bought seven and a half million dollars of shares in Metaplanet, the Japanese Bitcoin treasury company.
AVanguard? The same Vanguard that won't even let its clients buy a spot Bitcoin ETF?
BThe very same. Now, it's unverified, and Watcher Guru has missed before, but it's an interesting claim.
AIf true, it's seven and a half million in a thirteen trillion dollar portfolio. That's not a strategy change, that's dust.
BDust that happens to be a Japanese company holding Bitcoin on its balance sheet. Vanguard may not love crypto, but its index funds buy whatever's in the benchmark.
ASo maybe Metaplanet got added to some index, and Vanguard had to buy. That says nothing about what Vanguard's analysts think.
BIt says Bitcoin treasury companies are now showing up in the indexes that every passive fund tracks. That's a structural shift, whether Vanguard likes it or not.
AA structural shift of seven million dollars? Come on. That's not even one basis point.
BIt's not about the size, it's about the direction. First the ETFs, now the indexes, then the pensions. Bitcoin is seeping in everywhere.
AI'll grant you it's a data point. But calling it a shift because Vanguard's passive arm moved seven million is like calling a puddle a flood.
BA puddle with a Bitcoin logo. Fine, we'll watch it.
ADifferent corner of crypto entirely — Walter Bloomberg posted on X four minutes ago that some Coinbase users may be unable to convert Brazilian real to buy or sell crypto. No confirmation yet, but after that real drop last week, any friction in the Brazil pipeline is worth tracking.
BIf the real is volatile and the exchange goes down, that's when people get stuck. A circuit breaker in stocks, a pause in crypto — same story.