Anthropic mulls mandatory employee stock trading plans after IPO, The Information reports

Anthropic is considering requiring rank-and-file employees to ​sell stock through preset ​trading plans after it goes public to ​avoid insider-trading concerns, The Information reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The Claude code creator and rival OpenAI are ‌racing to ⁠go public ⁠as investor appetite for artificial intelligence fuels soaring valuations and ​companies compete to set the benchmark for valuing frontier AI firms.