Act of Claude: Anthropic’s IPO bid

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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