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Speaker 3: Always, always, always a lot of technology news out there,

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Speaker 3: and it's news with really big numbers too, I mean,

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Speaker 3: and today's no different. Anthropic has received offers from investors

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Speaker 3: at about eight hundred billion dollars or hire just they

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Speaker 2: And this is a private company, yes.

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Speaker 3: Yes, And if I'm you know, putting my IPO banker

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Speaker 3: Mandy've Sing joins US global tech research lead for Bloomberg Intelligence.

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Speaker 3: He's over in London right now, cracking heads over there,

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Speaker 3: about Anthropic here any surprise here, Well.

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Speaker 6: All six big banks have now reported their results, and

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Speaker 8: Saly know losses from their private critics. So that's great

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