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Slate Money - ANT, Man

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This Week: A.I. giant Anthropic, makers of Claude, filed to go public. Felix Salmon, Elizabeth Spiers, and Emily Peck discuss what the S-1 filing revealed about their finances and what this IPO means for Anthropic’s place in the A.I. race. Then, they look at why Weil, Gotshal & Mange, a top Wall Street law firm, is choosing to shut its doors and what that says about the industry. And finally, they take a look at how crypto exchange Binance is scrambling after a $6.3 billion Bitcoin heist.

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