Anthropic, which officially filed to go public at a rumored valuation of up to $2 trillion dollars just a week before the elections.
As Bloomberg reports, those prospects are in free fall as the chaos takes hold. Some investors are now weighing bids that would value Anthropic as low as $1.1 trillion. While that’s still a huge valuation for a company that lost over $80 billion in the first half of 2026 alone, it’s a massive drop compared to the previously unbridled enthusiasm surrounding the firm’s IPO.
I mean “that year’s taxes” is dubious given state borrowing in many countries. But the government pay for it.
Private pensions might get fucked, but they still get the state pension. So… Oh no, you might not be quite as better off as you hoped? Hard to care too much.