Anthropic is preparing to go public. A look at the company's plan

NPR | By Steve Inskeep,

Casey Newton

Published October 28, 2026 at 4:45 AM EDT

NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Machine Gods host Casey Newton about the reaction to Anthropic's preparations to become a publicly traded company.

Steve Inskeep

Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR's Morning Edition and Up First.

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Casey Newton

Casey Newton is the co-host of Machine Gods, a video-first show about AI from NPR, which he hosts with Kevin Roose. Prior, Newton and Roose created and hosted Hard Fork at The New York Times, which Time named one of the 100 best podcasts of all time.

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