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Anthropic is making serious noise heading into what could be one of the most anticipated IPOs in recent memory. The Claude chatbot maker reportedly saw revenue surge past eleven point five billion dollars in the second quarter, a figure that underscores just how aggressively enterprise demand for AI infrastructure is accelerating beyond the hype cycle.
Staying with artificial intelligence, Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu is pushing back against the binary framing of the AI debate. The MIT economist argues that both blind optimism and outright fear are failures of analysis, warning that liberal democracy and AI development share a common crisis rooted in what he calls a tendency to escalate everything, crowding out the nuanced policy thinking the moment actually demands.
Shifting to the cattle pits, live cattle futures are under pressure Friday, off roughly three to five dollars a contract. The Tyson plant closure is weighing on sentiment, and the morning Fed Cattle Exchange auction moved nothing on over thirteen hundred head offered. Some cash business did get done in the North, with sales reported in the two hundred twenty eight to two hundred thirty dollar range, but the overall tone remains defensive.
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