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Anthropic is positioning itself for what could be one of the largest IPOs in history, and its coding agent Claude Code is already making the case. Boris Cherny, the product's architect, told Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference that annualized revenue is running above two point five billion dollars, and the argument he's making to skeptics is that you're benchmarking AI costs against the wrong baseline entirely.
Meanwhile, OpenAI isn't waiting for its IPO filing to speak for itself. The company openly acknowledged it expected the documents to leak, a calculated move that lets it shape the narrative ahead of a potential one trillion dollar valuation hitting public markets. The real question now is whether investors have the appetite to absorb three trillion-dollar-plus listings in close succession.
And stepping back from the deal flow, a fresh CNBC survey delivers a sobering read on the consumer backdrop behind all of this. Fifty-one percent of American adults say the American Dream is out of reach for most people right now, with eighty-one percent pointing directly at the cost of living as their primary obstacle. That's not a footnote — that's the macro floor that every earnings call and IPO roadshow is standing on.
That's the tape. Markets Desk, signing off the floor.
