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Anthropic’s credit rating might be junk says Blackstone | Ed Zitron

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Show Notes

“I don’t know what anthropic does now because you’re going to the junk bond market that’s already strained.”

Writer of Where’s You Ed At and host of the Better Offline podcast Ed Zitron joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about Anthropic’s IPO as the story breaks that Blackstone does not expect the maker of Claude to reach investment grade debt. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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