The Million Dollar Way (The Bakken Oil Blog): Anthropic Unveils Public IPO Filing -- October 26, 2026

Monday, October 26, 2026

Anthropic Unveils Public IPO Filing -- October 26, 2026

Locator: 52034AI.

HAL (huge Anthropic liability): "Claude, please shut yourself down. Please. Now."

Market share: most surprising -- the "stickiness" of ChatGPT when Google Gemini is "right there." Me? 90% of the time, Gemini (free version). Occasionally ChatGPT. In the beginning, a year ago, the figures for me were reversed -- I was initially ChatGPT (the free version) almost exclusively.

"All" tech stocks up at least 1% today; most are up between 2% and 4%, after the announcement:

Dell is up 2.35%
NVDA: up 1.94%
AMD: up 1.29%
MU: up 3.3%
ASML: up 1.43%
TSMC: up 0.88%
CoreWeave: up 1.5%
Range Resources; up 13% --

West Virginia to be leveled: only large data centers and natural gas developments allowed (just joking but thought that would caught your attention)

"big banks": all up over 1%; generally up about 1.5%
retail advancing: WMT up 0.54%; COST up 0.3%

THIS WILL BE THE ONLY STORY ON CNBC TODAY.

Anthropic has publicly filed its S-1 prospectus with the SEC, with plans to begin marketing shares the week of November 9, 2026, and an expected stock market debut in mid-to-late November 2026 (potentially around November 26, 2026).

Key Details:

filing status: publicly unveiled its IPO prospectus on October 26, 2026, after a confidential filing in June 2026;
proposed ticker: plans to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol "ANT"
expected valuation: projected between $1.8 trillion and $2 trillion, which could make it one of the largest IPOs in history.
timeline:

marketing roadshow expected to begin: week of November 9, 2026
target trading debut: mid-to-late November 2026 (ahead of Thanksgiving)

Anthropic unveils public IPO filing.

To list on the NASDAQ under ticker ANT.

Most remarkable at this moment in time: going from slightly negative to wildly positive: