Business · Episode 3 · 7 October 2026

Anthropic's draft prospectus: losses and risks

Anthropic's stock-market filing shows huge losses, fast growth, and a warning that its own AI could end humanity.

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Robyn, anchorAnthropic, the AI company that makes the Claude chatbot, lost over eight billion dollars on operations last year.

Robyn, anchorReuters and the Financial Times report this from its unpublished stock-market prospectus.

Robyn, anchorSales grew twelvefold, but computing alone cost more than the company earned.

Robyn, anchorIt also plans to spend 518 billion dollars on computing.

Robyn, anchorAnd the draft warns advanced AI could bring catastrophic, even existential, risks to humanity.

Robyn, anchorAnthropic declined to comment on the reports, Reuters says.

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