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TechCrunch, Rebecca Bellan, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, Sean O'Kane, Theresa Loconsolo
Anthropic’s S-1 is here. Does AI pay off?
36 minutes Posted Oct 30, 2026 at 5:45 pm.
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After weeks of speculation and leaks, Anthropic finally released the S-1 filing for its IPO, showing revenue of $16.3 billion for the first half of 2026, with a net loss of $80.7 billion.
At around the same time, former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer sparked a backlash after boasting about using her AI app Dazzle to answer questions about her daughter for a school presentation.
On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and Anthony Ha dig into the long-awaited financial details behind one of the industry’s biggest companies, looking at both the enormous opportunities and the many, many risks. They’re also joined by Amanda Silberling to discuss a more basic question facing the industry: Are AI execs too out-of-touch to build products for normal people?
Listen to the full episode to hear more about:
What Anthropic’s S-1 reveals about its enterprise strategy
Why an Apollo economist said that AI has delivered “zero financial payoff”
New funding for Bedrock Robotics, a startup building self-driving excavators
Why manufacturing accelerator Re:Build just raised $2.1 billion
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