Anthropic could start marketing its IPO the week of Nov. 9 at a valuation of $1.8 trillion to $2 trillion, Bloomberg reported. How much money it draws from other AI stocks before Thanksgiving depends on a share count the reports have not disclosed.
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Anthropic is aiming for a November IPO after its draft prospectus showed an operating loss of about $8 billion on $4.6 billion of revenue last year. OpenAI is staying private until 2027, so Anthropic's listing puts a frontier lab's finances in front of public investors first.
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Anthropic could start marketing its IPO the week of Nov. 9, a month later than planned, at a value investors put at $1.8 trillion to $2 trillion. Companies that build on its models would then rely on a supplier whose losses and price are debated in public.
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Oura postponed its $2.2bn Nasdaq IPO on pricing day after its shares reportedly looked set to sell at the bottom of their $40-to-$44 range. Even $40 a share would have valued the profitable ring maker near $14.2bn, above its 2025 private round, so the dispute is over how far above.
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Google is selling the Fitbit Air in India for Rs 13,999, about $146 and roughly 47% more than the $99 it charges in the US. A band pitched elsewhere as the affordable screen-less option arrives as a premium buy where Indian startups compete on cost.
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Robinhood is the 18th of 18 underwriters on Oura's IPO, its first seat in a syndicate with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan. The debut gives a retail brokerage a formal role in underwriting an offering Oura postponed on Tuesday.
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Anthropic is seeking a record $2 trillion listing on 2025 revenue of $4.6 billion and a $42 billion net loss, according to Reuters. The price it gets for the roughly 5 percent it is expected to sell in November decides whether Amazon and Google book a gain or a loss on their stakes.
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A complaint says selling AI inference as reliable science is itself the deception. That theory reaches any product that renders a model output in the visual grammar of a reading.
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Existing holders are selling 36.5 million of the 50 million shares on offer. Oura's own 13.5 million would net about $532.6 million at the $42 midpoint, ahead of pricing on September 29 at up to $14.1 billion.
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Oura is selling 13.5 million of the 50 million shares on offer, so about $594m of the base deal reaches the company and 73% of it goes to people who already own stock. The subscription is what is being priced.
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Google's Fitbit Air arrived in May and Garmin's Cirqa in July, both sold without the yearly fee Whoop charges. IDC says sensor quality has barely moved, so the software is what these companies are actually selling.
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Apple says the Series 12 and Ultra 4 are the most accurate heart-tracking wearables on the market. One reviewer's hour of walk-run intervals, judged against the same chest strap Apple's own accuracy study used, mostly backs it.
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Apple will add a Health Age number later this year to a category where Whoop, Oura, Withings and Garmin each compute their own. Verge reviewer Victoria Song has collected age scores from six products, and they do not agree.
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Oura's S-1 lists 18 underwriters and Robinhood is the last of them, on a deal seeking up to $3bn at more than $16bn. It is the first use of a licence the brokerage received in June 2026, and what it buys is a say in allocation.
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The deemed dividend sits three lines under the net income in the same S-1, and each outlet picked a different line. Under both is a subscription that attaches to 94% of rings and now carries the margin.
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Apple will put a 0-to-10 readiness score on the Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, a metric Oura has kept central since its 2015 Kickstarter. The score depends on battery life, and that is where Oura still leads.
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The redesigned Health app takes a heart rate reading every five seconds off the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, turns it into readiness and Health Age scores, and sells the bloodwork that fills the gap for $119.
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The $70m round adds Qualcomm silicon and a Labcorp diagnostics tie-up to the plan, while the only thing a developer can touch this month is a software update running on the chips Ultrahuman already ships.
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Qualcomm Ventures money arrives with a plan to put the chipmaker's silicon on a finger and run health algorithms there instead of on the phone. That shift changes the product more than the $365 million valuation does.
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Crunchbase counts 58 billion-dollar venture listings in the first half against 27 a year earlier, but $86bn of the $110.8bn raised was SpaceX, which leaves the autumn calendar to prove the depth.
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Earlier coverage
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