{"id":635811,"date":"2026-10-20T01:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635811\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T01:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:28:11","slug":"anthropic-could-be-the-ai-trades-last-tentpole-ipo-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/635811\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic could be the AI trade\u2019s last tentpole IPO in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Anthropic could be the AI trade&#8217;s last tentpole IPO in 2026, as postponements of public offerings mount ahead of a looming capital crunch.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Investors earlier in the year salivated at the prospect of successive SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI offerings, but market jitters have forced several fintech and AI-exposed companies to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/finance\/firmus-ipo-ai-trade-f490c240\" data-ylk=\"slk:rethink%20their%20IPO%20plans;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;rethink their IPO plans&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">rethink their IPO plans<\/a> this year.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Anthropic, too, has come under scrutiny, after &#8220;more questions than answers emerged around\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/10\/19\/anthropic-ipo-ai-trade.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:revenue%20growth%20deceleration%20in%20September;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;revenue growth deceleration in September&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">revenue growth deceleration in September<\/a>,&#8221; an analyst told CNBC, as the startup&#8217;s revised valuation piles further downward pressure on AI stocks.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">Meanwhile, Anthropic is continuing its debt binge but on more exacting terms: Its newest borrowing from Blackstone is expected to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/cb4034e1-475f-40b9-a5f9-256e91aacb89?syn-25a6b1a6=1&amp;utm_source=semafor\" data-ylk=\"slk:charge%20more%20than%2010%25%20interest;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;charge more than 10% interest&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">charge more than 10% interest<\/a>, the Financial Times reported.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text text-block paragraph text-left neo-font-paragraph-xl-reg  yf-18d6y07\" style=\"text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal;\">\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/brendan-ruberry\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brendan%20Ruberry;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;source:content-canvas%20default\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Brendan Ruberry&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yTrafficOrigin&quot;:&quot;content-canvas default&quot;}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Brendan Ruberry<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic could be the AI trade&#8217;s last tentpole IPO in 2026, as postponements of public offerings mount ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[2169,365,363,364,138,553,219,246,5932,329,37332,5933,5483,16400,7454,111,139,69,244,8499,13081,294,781,5934,5935,643,37333,7496,145,37334],"class_list":["post-635811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-401k","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-financial-information","tag-investing","tag-investment-tools","tag-investor","tag-market-news","tag-mortgage","tag-mutual-funds","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-personal-finance","tag-quote","tag-real-estate","tag-retirement","tag-stock","tag-stock-research","tag-stock-valuation","tag-stocks","tag-suze-orman","tag-tax","tag-technology","tag-track-portfolio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}