How a Contractor’s Claude Agent Got Into the Pentagon
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the contractor who plugged their AI agent into a Pentagon system, Anthropic’s IPO filing, and the volunteers gearing up to counter ICE at the midterms.
This week, Anthropic officially filed for its IPO. The company's S-1 filing revealed staggering financial figures, with revenue of $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026, a 14-fold increase from the same period in 2022. However, the company is still reporting significant losses and has committed billions of dollars to compute. Anthropic's valuation has skyrocketed from $183 billion to $965 billion in its most recent round, with expectations of reaching close to $2 trillion once it starts trading.
While the IPO is of high stakes for the AI industry and the entire US economy, the company's heavy reliance on a few tech giants for cloud marketplaces is a concern.
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