IPOs

Anthropic is being discussed in connection with an IPO filing, according to posts circulating on Bluesky. The reports suggest the artificial intelligence company may be preparing to go public, though no confirmed details about timing, valuation, or exchange have emerged. Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI assistant, is one of the most prominent private AI firms, and any move toward a public listing would be a major milestone for the sector.

French entrepreneur Anthony Bourbon has launched a series on investing in early-stage companies with the potential to become the next OpenAI, Anthropic or SpaceX, presented as day one of an ongoing guide. The content covers how ordinary investors can back startups in artificial intelligence and space, sectors currently drawing huge private capital and attention.

Physicists Clay Córdova and Diego García-Sepúlveda have published a new open-access paper in SciPost Physics, titled 'Non-invertible anyon condensation and level-rank dualities' (SciPost Phys. 21, 089, 2026). The work examines non-invertible anyon condensation and its connection to level-rank dualities, topics of current interest in theoretical physics. It is freely available to all readers via the journal.

A new open-access paper by Kansei Inamura has been published in SciPost Physics, titled 'Remarks on non-invertible symmetries on a tensor product Hilbert space in 1+1 dimensions'. The article appears in volume 21 of the journal and is freely available to readers. Non-invertible symmetries have become a closely followed topic in theoretical physics, so the publication is drawing attention from researchers in the field.

Northern Ireland-based data centre and AI infrastructure firm Firmus has withdrawn its planned stock market flotation, pulling the listing ahead of its expected debut. The decision means the company will remain privately held for now, halting what would have been a closely watched listing. Business observers are discussing what the withdrawal signals about market conditions for new flotations, particularly for technology and infrastructure companies seeking public investment.

A startup backed by Nvidia has withdrawn its planned initial public offering, and the Wall Street Journal reports the cancellation as evidence that investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence may have limits. The decision suggests that even companies with prominent AI-focused backers are struggling to win over public market investors at hoped-for valuations, raising questions about how durable the AI investment wave really is.

A startup backed by Nvidia has withdrawn its planned IPO, a move that Wall Street analysts say highlights the limits of the current AI investment boom. The decision suggests even companies closely tied to the AI surge are finding investor appetite weaker than expected, raising questions about how long the sector's momentum can hold.

Reliance Jio's planned IPO is drawing attention amid a widening row over satellite internet services, with Elon Musk's Starlink at the centre of the debate. The dispute has turned the spotlight on how spectrum for satellite broadband in India should be allocated, an issue with direct implications for Jio's valuation and its rivalry in the telecom and internet access market.