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Sky-High I.P.O. Pricing Isn’t Great for Real People

When newly public companies have been valued as richly as SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic seem likely to be, the outlook for ordinary investors has been poor.

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SpaceX’s Starship rocket during a test flight in May. The company’s chief executive, Elon Musk, stands to unlock a great fortune when the company goes public.

The $900 Billion Giant: How Anthropic Got So Big, So Fast

The artificial intelligence giant was just valued at $900 billion, surpassing OpenAI. Here are the numbers behind its rise — and headwinds it faces.

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Anthropic, which created the Claude A.I. model, has surged in popularity with users, pushing its valuation to $900 billion.

Should We Let Robots Kill People?

Are we ready for autonomous drones to make life-and-death decisions on the battlefield? Christian Brose, the chief strategy officer of Anduril Industries, explains on “Interesting Times” that the Pentagon’s official policy leaves the door for autonomous weapons wide open.

Is the U.S. Prepared for a Major War?

America has fired “something like eight years’ worth of Tomahawk missile production” in Iran, Christian Brose, the chief strategy officer of Anduril Industries, says on “Interesting Times,” where he and the Opinion columnist Ross Douthat discuss the limitations of America’s arsenal of “luxury” weapons.

Anthropic Tops OpenAI to Become the World’s Most Valuable A.I. Start-Up

Anthropic raised $65 billion in new fund-raising that put its value at $900 billion, ahead of OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion, as the companies duel for A.I. dominance.

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Anthropic’s updated model, Claude Opus 4.8, is particularly adept at vibecoding, or the process of artificial intelligence writing code from prompts in conversational English.

Two of America’s Thorniest Political Issues Are Dividing an Arizona Town

Marana, Ariz., is used to placid local politics, but the town, in a congressional swing district held by Juan Ciscomani, has been convulsed by two national issues, A.I. and immigration detention.

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A proposed data center in Marana, Ariz., would rise from what’s left of the fallow agricultural land that has not been consumed by tract housing.
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