Should Anthropic press pause on a potential $2trn IPO?

THROUGHOUT ITS five-and-a-half-year history, Anthropic, a safety obsessed artificial-intelligence lab, has grappled with the tension of How To build AI safely while making enough money to push forward the frontier of AI research. On September 12th that tension came to a head. Dario Amodei, its boss, called on the industry to “slow the pace” of AI development, just as his firm was believed to be on the cusp of launching what may be the biggest initial public offering (IPO) of all time.