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The models get the headlines; the business decides who gets to build them. Here we follow the money, the strategy and the power — funding rounds, leadership moves, the deals and the rivalries — with the same sourcing discipline as the rest of the wire.
Industry
OpenAI follows Anthropic to the market — and the AI-IPO pipeline comes into view
A week after its rival, OpenAI files confidentially. The race to list is now the story the whole sector is pricing.
WireRead Editorial · 8 June 2026
Industry
Anthropic files to go public: what the $965bn number is really telling you
A confidential S-1 turns the lab from a private bet into a public-market test of the whole frontier-AI thesis.
WireRead Editorial · 1 June 2026