Anthropic's IPO prospectus is big on promises, short on answers to tough questions

It's official: Anthropic is going public, and boy, are our eyebrows tired from poring over hundreds and hundreds of pages of questionable claims.

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Anthropic is going to need to do a lot to make its massive IPO more than just a flash in the pan, as systems editor Tobias Man n and senior reporter Tom Claburn tell host Brandon Vigliarolo on this week's episode.

For one, the company has nearly a trillion dollars in compute commitments to pay for, which is going to mean it'll be burning through more cash than a datacenter gas turbine turned up to 11. …