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Anthropic's IPO Filing Says More About TSMC Dependency Than Any Texas Headline
10/31/2026
Everyone's chasing the Texas headline this month. Nobody's reading the prospectus. Buried in Anthropic's IPO filing is a line that matters more than any site-selection rumor: the company told investors that disruptions to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s operations could…
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