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Anthropic is heading to market with an IPO price range of seventy to seventy-eight dollars per share, targeting one of the largest technology debuts in recent memory. But Jay Ritter, the academic known as Mister IPO, is already waving a yellow flag, questioning whether the valuation leaves meaningful upside on the table for incoming investors.
Shifting to the infrastructure layer of the AI trade, CoreWeave posted third-quarter results that sent shares sharply higher, with revenue surging despite a bruising year for neocloud stocks broadly. The sector has absorbed three distinct headwinds through two thousand twenty-six, which is why analysts are urging caution about chasing the move at current levels rather than treating the print as a clean all-clear signal.
And over at Nvidia, the transition is now official and very much in focus. Jensen Huang is out after thirty-three years at the helm, with Colette Kress stepping in as interim chief executive. Jim Cramer, Kevin O'Leary, and others have voiced early support, but the stock remains under pressure as the market works through what leadership change means for the world's most consequential chipmaker.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
