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Monday gave us the release of Anthropic’s S-1 filing, providing the clearest view yet into the business side of the A.I. boom and setting the stage for what could be the largest initial public offering in history. We’ll talk to Erin Griffith, who has been reporting on the story, about what it means for the company, the tech industry and the broader economy. Then we’re joined by the tech reporter Mike Isaac and the writer Jasmine Sun to break down the rest of this week’s tech news, including how the midterm elections next week could affect the future of tech policy, as well as the latest round of cybersecurity worries and Microsoft’s offer of buyouts to 60,000 employees.

Guests:

• Erin Griffith, a technology reporter at The New York Times
• Mike Isaac, a technology reporter at The New York Times
• Jasmine Sun, journalist and writer at jasmi.news

Additional Reading:

• Anthropic Reveals Skyrocketing Growth and Spending Plans in I.P.O. Filing
• What’s Riding on Anthropic’s Market Debut? Nearly Everything.
• Anthropic’s I.P.O. Prospectus Spells Out a Future of Promise and Peril
• Why Anger About Data Centers and Energy Prices May Not Swing Votes
• What Is PHP? Why Are Government and Business Websites Going Offline?
• Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 60,000 Employees as It Spends on A.I.

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This week, we focus on Billy Evans, the breakout character of the documentary “You Can See Everything,” and his Theranos-esque new blood-testing start-up. Rob Copeland, a New York Times finance reporter, and Erin Griffith, a tech reporter, join Max Read to discuss what Evans is like when the cameras are off, whether his start-up is a real company and how Silicon Valley is reacting to the film. Then, we break down CoreWeave’s debt, a possible SpaceX-Tesla merger and Joel Kaplan’s Meta exit. Finally, a returning guest: John Carreyrou joins us to answer listener questions about Elizabeth Holmes.

Guests:

• Erin Griffith, a technology reporter at The New York Times
• Rob Copeland, a finance reporter at The New York Times
• John Carreyrou, an investigative reporter at The New York Times and author of “Bad Blood”

Additional Reading:

• Elizabeth Holmes’s Partner Has a New Blood-Testing Start-Up
• The Elizabeth Holmes Documentary, Through the Eyes of the Reporter Who Exposed Her
• Weak Links Start to Show in A.I. Borrowing
• SpaceX and Tesla Explore Merger to Create a De Facto Elon Inc.
• Meta’s Global Policy Chief to Leave After 15 Years

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This week, there’s a new blockbuster Elizabeth Holmes documentary out, and we’ve assembled an expert panel to discuss the movie and what Holmes means to the tech world of today. Max Read is joined by John Carreyrou, who, through his investigative reporting for The Wall Street Journal and his book “Bad Blood,” revealed the fraud at the heart of Theranos; Erin Griffith, a tech reporter who extensively covered Holmes’s trail; and Caitlin Roper, the New York Times executive producer who wrote the first-ever magazine piece about Holmes for Wired back in 2013.

We end with a rundown of what else is happening in tech news this week.

Panelists:

• Erin Griffith, a tech reporter for The New York Times.
• John Carreyrou, author of “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup” and an investigative reporter for The New York Times’s business section.
• Caitlin Roper runs film, TV and books at The New York Times.

Additional Reading:

• ‘You Can See Everything’ Review: The Slippery Mind of Elizabeth Holmes
• Elizabeth Holmes’s Partner Has a New Blood-Testing Start-Up
• Elizabeth Holmes to Transfer to Halfway House in August 2027
• F.B.I. Arrests OpenAI Employee Accused of Planting Bug in Office

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This week, Max Read talks to the Times religion correspondent Elizabeth Dias, the tech reporter Erin Griffith and the opinion writer David Wallace-Wells about Anthropic’s private meetings with religious scholars on A.I. consciousness and how to make Claude “good,” its differences with the Vatican and the new belief systems taking shape in Silicon Valley.

Panelists:

• Elizabeth Dias, national religion correspondent for The New York Times.
• Erin Griffith, a tech reporter for The New York Times.
• David Wallace-Wells, an opinion writer for The New York Times.

Additional Reading:

• Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
• What Would You Do If Your Employer Could Destroy the World? Exit interviews with defectors from OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind.
• I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken

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