David Sacks called for Anthropic’s initial public offering to be paused until claims by former researcher Jacob Coxon can be investigated. Coxon, who worked on pre-training research at OpenAI and Anthropic, said both companies were racing toward self-improving superintelligence and were not acting responsibly. The dispute has broadened into a governance issue as Anthropic pursues a reported valuation of almost $2 trillion. The company is expected to begin IPO marketing in mid-October and list before the November U.S. midterm elections after confidentially filing a draft S-1 with the SEC on June 1. Its latest private financing valued it at about $965 billion, while reported public-market ambitions imply a roughly 107% increase. Anthropic’s annualized revenue reached $65 billion at the end of July, but investors are awaiting audited margins, compute expenses and customer-concentration data. The debate has also drawn bipartisan attention in Washington, while industry forecasts still point to more than $1 trillion in global AI investment in 2026. Anthropic therefore faces simultaneous questions over whether its economics support the proposed valuation and whether increasingly powerful AI systems can be governed.