Anthropic's growing pains mount ahead of OpenAI showdown

Anthropic is hitting turbulence at a critical moment, with a cascade of challenges converging ahead of a potential IPO that could value the company near $800 billion.Why it matters: The AI darling, whose revenue has tripled to $30 billion this year on the back of its wildly popular coding tools, has never been more valuable or more vulnerable.Chief rival OpenAI senses opportunity in the Claude maker's recent stumbles, courting frustrated developers and pitching itself as the steadier alternative...