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According to a report by Reuters, Anthropic is considering launching a new artificial intelligence model before its IPO, which may be delayed until after the U.S. midterm elections.

According to sources, Anthropic's annual revenue is expected to exceed $100 billion this year, up from $65 billion in July. The company is seeking an IPO, with a valuation that could reach $2 trillion, potentially starting stock trading as early as November.Investors expect computing power to reach 5 gigawatts by the end of the year, doubling by the end of next year to be comparable to OpenAI.

AI infrastructure company NScale submitted an IPO application in the United States, planning to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the code "NSCL".

OpenAI is in discussions with investors for a new round of private financing, targeting a valuation of approximately $1.2 trillion in preparation for a future IPO. According to informed sources, OpenAI's valuation reached $852 billion after completing financing in March of this year.The company is discussing further financing plans with large investors, and the negotiations are still in the early stages. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that the listing date may not be earlier than 2027.

Yang Haipo, the founder of CoinEx, stated that CoinEx officially launched on December 22, 2017, and will officially close on December 22, 2026, nine years later. He mentioned that nine years is a long time in the cryptocurrency industry, and CoinEx has gone through multiple bull and bear cycles with its users, witnessing the rise and fall of numerous projects, as well as seeing many peers leave the market in different ways.Yang Haipo expressed that after reflection, he accepted the fact that CoinEx has not become a leading exchange in the industry, and the security and compliance risks of operating a cryptocurrency exchange have become increasingly difficult to control; revenue may decline, but responsibility does not lessen, and bearing unlimited risks with limited revenue is no longer a rational choice. He stated that CoinEx has survived for nine years in a highly volatile and harsh industry, and after experiencing various storms, it can still leave completely and with dignity.Regarding CET, CoinEx will repurchase it at its initial listing price of 0.005 USDT per coin, with no quantity limit set. Yang Haipo mentioned that he seriously considered selling CoinEx but ultimately decided against it because users entrusted their assets to CoinEx based on their trust in the platform and him personally. He believes that handing over the platform and this trust to a new owner is not the right way to end this journey, stating, "A clean end is the right end." CoinEx will ensure that users can fully withdraw their assets, provide employees with a dignified farewell, and offer a clear and responsible handling plan for CET holders.

According to Axios, multiple sources have revealed that even though artificial intelligence safety issues have become a hot topic of the era, Anthropic is still likely to go public in 2026, and the IPO schedule has not changed.

Market news: Japanese NAND giant Kioxia Holdings is considering raising $10 billion through an IPO in the United States.The company is in talks with Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase to seek more liquidity in the U.S.

According to Bloomberg, AI computing network manufacturer Ligent Technologies Inc. plans to conduct an IPO in Hong Kong, intending to issue 172 million shares at an offering price of HKD 32.96 per share, raising up to HKD 5.7 billion (approximately USD 727 million) in total.The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, USA, and has a Chinese background. The stock is expected to officially list for trading on September 22.

The industrial robot and embodied intelligence company Mechaman landed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 1, 2026, known as the "first stock of embodied intelligent eyes, brains, and hands." Founder and CEO Shao Tianlan stated that going public is just a move; what truly matters is that the company becomes a public entity. He still considers himself an engineer, spending about half of his time on core technology, application scenarios, and product iterations.Shao Tianlan pointed out that some embodied intelligence companies rely on data collection centers and industrial projects to generate revenue, with insufficient commercialization validation. He described companies that enter the public market prematurely, with high risks and unverified business models, as "secondary market primary." He believes this is a short-sighted approach that could cause significant harm to tech startups, China's innovation ecosystem, and the health of the capital market.Shao Tianlan positions Mechaman as a new technology-driven enterprise, with the expected management principles of being pragmatic, not exaggerating, and not being deceptive. He hopes to become a key general intelligent component similar to Microsoft and Siemens in the era of embodied intelligence. This IPO attracted participation from several long-term funds and industrial capital, including Baillie Gifford.

TOP Chinese Technology Innovation Society states that Yan Wentao, a partner at Hillhouse Capital, is expected to join DeepSeek as CFO, with an anticipated start date soon.DeepSeek has begun preparations for its Sci-Tech Innovation Board IPO, with CITIC Securities currently conducting due diligence, but both parties have not yet signed a formal listing advisory agreement. DeepSeek hopes to initiate the IPO process this year.Yan Wentao is a post-90s partner at Hillhouse Capital, responsible for technology investments for a long time, with publicly disclosed investment projects including ByteDance, MiniMax, and Zhipu AI. DeepSeek currently does not have a CFO or a formal investor relations team.

According to informed sources, Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq as the potential listing location for its IPO, planning to go public in October. Nasdaq previously successfully secured the listing of SpaceX, which is valued at $1.75 trillion, while Anthropic's valuation could reach $2 trillion.

Robinhood's on-chain stock meme coin issuance platform Long.xyz founder Nate stated that after the launch of the new Pre-IPO feature, the platform has added approximately 10,000 asset issuance projects.Nate estimates that without token code locking and client issuance quantity limits, the platform's daily issuance could reach 100,000, at which point the platform may be more utilized by bots, making it difficult for ordinary users to filter through the large number of new assets, potentially further fueling FOMO trading, chasing volume, and data inflation.Nate indicated that LONG will continuously adjust issuance limits based on demand changes and plans to add an asset discovery filter to help users filter projects based on parameters such as whale holding ratios, asset longevity, and antifragility, while aggregating liquidity and capital flow to assets that perform well and have uniqueness within the ecosystem.The team is currently monitoring suspicious activities across all trading pairs and has not identified any major issues, but is prepared with new risk control parameters. If it is found that price manipulation behavior is due to coordinated actions rather than natural market activities, the team can quickly implement relevant restrictions.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that the company will not go public this year, with the IPO potentially delayed until 2027. In an interview with Fortune, Altman mentioned that given the current circumstances surrounding safety issues, going public now is not a wise move, and the company feels no pressure in this regard.He added that the company has a lot of work to do, including meeting safety and alignment requirements, as well as promoting collaboration between the industry and the government. This statement comes as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly called for a slowdown in the AI race on Saturday, with both Altman and Elon Musk quickly expressing their agreement.

Reuters reported that Anthropic plans to raise $100 billion to set an IPO record, with a valuation potentially reaching $2 trillion. Nvidia is considering participating in a $10 billion investment.

According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, at the Pujiang Innovation Forum results release conference focused on the integration of science and industry, Jin Xianmin, the founder of Turing Quantum, officially launched the TuringQ Gen3 large-scale chip-level scalable optical quantum computer, which is the world's first cabinet-level chip-scale scalable optical quantum computer.The TuringQ Gen3 is equipped with a high-speed programmable thin-film lithium niobate optical quantum chip, integrating core modules such as quantum light sources, programmable optical quantum processing chips, single-photon detection, and quantum-classical heterogeneous computing. It supports single-chip calculations with tens of thousands of photons and millions of modes, achieving chip-level quantum superiority verification, and will explore directions in AI such as world models. Recently, Turing Quantum has obtained registration for listing guidance and plans to IPO on the A-share market, with Guotai Junan as the guiding institution.

According to sources, Anthropic is in talks to bring in NVIDIA as its anchor investor for its IPO, which is expected to be the largest in history.It is reported that NVIDIA is considering investing up to $10 billion in this IPO.

The Smarter Web Company announced plans to launch the UK's first Bitcoin-backed preferred stock, subject to shareholder approval. The company expects to raise between $20 million and $34 million through a potential IPO to increase its Bitcoin holdings and acquire cash-generating operational businesses.

Cryptocurrency exchange OKX announced the launch of Pre-IPO perpetual contracts related to OpenAI and Anthropic in Europe. Eligible traders can go long or short on the valuations of the two AI companies with up to 10 times leverage, but will not receive actual shares of the two companies. This product bets on the valuation changes of the two companies before their IPOs, providing a new speculative avenue for retail investors who find it difficult to directly buy shares of private companies.OKX is not the first platform to launch such products. Hyperliquid has offered markets related to OpenAI and Anthropic through HIP-3, and Binance also provides Pre-IPO perpetual contracts for the two companies. OKX stated that such products are not substitutes for the shares themselves but can meet the ongoing market demand for exposure to large tech companies that have not been publicly listed for a long time.Meanwhile, OKX has also launched 100 tokenized stocks and ETFs, including Nvidia, Alphabet, Palantir, as well as SPY and QQQ, allowing European traders to trade traditional markets around the clock. These tokens track the prices of the underlying securities but do not grant holders actual shares or voting rights, and some tokens can be withdrawn to self-custody wallets. OKX Europe CEO Erald Ghoos stated that the demand for its derivatives business continues to grow, with trading volume for X-Perps in the European market quadrupling since the transition period of MiCA ended in July.