Anthropic says its IPO could herald the end of the world as we know it
Combine that with massive capex predictions, and you have an IPO with massive valuation, yet a long, hard road toward anything resembling earnings. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); A lightly edited transcript is below: Brandon (00:04)Hi everyone, and welcome to another episode of The Register's Kettle podcast. I'm your host, Brandon Vigliarolo, and this week we're gathered around the teapot to discuss hey, what else, AI?
- ▪Combine that with massive capex predictions, and you have an IPO with massive valuation, yet a long, hard road toward anything resembling earnings.
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- ▪I'm your host, Brandon Vigliarolo, and this week we're gathered around the teapot to discuss hey, what else, AI?
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