Anthropic Sends Jolt Through Market for Buying Shares in Hot Pre-IPO Startups

In the moments after Anthropic expanded a ban on popular ways to buy its shares, investor chatrooms around the world lit up. “Are we screwed?” one person wrote in a Whats App chat for family offices with several hundred members. Similar questions reverberated more publicly across X, Reddit and Chinese-language social media, as investors worried whether their shares in the artificial intelligence developer — one of the most coveted private companies — had suddenly become worthless.Days later, ther