UNITED KINGDOM PERSPECTIVE

London lands the exclusive interview that reshapes the debate: Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder, sits down with BBC Newsnight and delivers the punchline: "You want to have the option to take your foot off the gas and press the brake. Right now the AI industry has an accelerator pedal, but no brake pedal." The British angle stands out for its frankness — Clark tells the BBC what he hadn't said as clearly elsewhere: 80% of Claude's code is currently written by Claude itself. "It's possible that within two years, that becomes 100%. That will have enormous consequences." The Independent widens the context: Anthropic, founded in 2021 by former OpenAI leaders, is valued at $965 billion, making it one of the world's most valuable startups. The paper compares the three IPO candidates: SpaceX ($1.25 trillion after xAI merger, $75B raise targeted, $2.6B loss on $18.7B revenue), Anthropic ($965B, $47B annualized revenue), OpenAI ($852B). Morningstar's Michael Field delivers the sentence that sums it up: "These companies are now burning through cash to win the AI race, and public equity is the cheapest source available." The British press formulates the implicit critique: the public is being asked to invest in a product whose creators themselves say they risk losing control of it. For London, this is less ethical caution than a pre-listing signal — crying wolf to prepare opinion for fragile valuations.