# Silicon Valley wants you to invest in miracles

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> **Original Source**: [The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1023070/anthropic-ipo-risk-factors-filing-miracles)
> **Author**: Ellen Thomas (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Friday, October 30, 2026
> **Category**: INDUSTRY
> **Tags**: AI, The Verge AI, industry

## Executive Summary
Investing in any stock is kind of like gambling in the sense that you're betting your money on a company's future performance. But how do you bet on a technology that could, in the worst-case scenario, "pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity," or...



## Full Coverage
Anthropic's S-1 is a new milestone in Big Tech's sprawling and lofty promises to Wall Street

To some extent, Anthropic suggests in a letter at the top of its S-1 filing, you have to just believe

Anthropic's 335-page S-1 prospectus, filed Monday, is part of a steady hype escalation in Silicon Valley's interactions with Wall Street. In some ways, it's not even that bizarre; SpaceX IPO'd in June after filing an S-1 that referenced dinosaurs and "colonizing Mars." But its sweeping language and sheer volume — including 94 pages of risk factors — is a sometimes overwhelming collision of AI industry rhetoric and a hard financial pitch. Out-of-this-world promises are integral to Anthropic's survival as a company . That doesn't make reading the S-1 any less surreal

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