Bangladesh, Oct. 29 -- Anthropic, the artificial intelligence company behind the Claude chatbot, is reportedly preparing for a potentially record-breaking initial public offering (IPO) that could value the company at as much as $2 trillion. The proposed listing highlights the growing financial ambitions of the AI industry, but it also raises questions about profitability, infrastructure spending, and the potentially catastrophic consequences of increasingly powerful AI systems.

According to the reported regulatory filing, the San Francisco-based company submitted its registration statement to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on October 26, outlining plans to list on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbol ANT. Th...