The Intelligence from The Economist
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
Act of Claude: Anthropic’s IPO bid
23 minutes Posted Oct 27, 2026 at 10:02 am.
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It would be the first public listing from a frontier-AI firm—and perhaps the largest IPO of all time. We comb through the filing to understand how the company is thinking about itself and its industry. Our American-midterms series continues in the battleground state of Alaska. And scientists consider how to redefine the second.

Guests and host:

  • Miles Kruppa, technology correspondent
  • Aryn Braun, West Coast correspondent
  • David Adam, science writer
  • Jason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”

Topics covered:

  • Anthropic IPO, AI
  • America’s midterm elections, Alaska
  • the second, metrology, atomic clocks

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