Anthropic sends jolt through market for buying shares in hot pre-IPO startups

Anthropic sends jolt through market for buying shares in hot pre-IPO startups Image Adobe Stock/Armstrong Hero Type Image Colin McEwen Fri, 07/10/2026 - 14:52 Media Editorial Staff April 14, 2026 Anat Alon-Beck Bloomberg News: Anat Alon-Beck, professor of law, said Anthropic’s crackdown on unauthorized SPVs signals a “reckoning” for modern private markets, raising questions about ownership, risk and whether trillion-dollar private companies should face public-company disclosure rules. Tags Media Mention School of Law