[AINews] Anthropic IPO: Whither Now?

AINews covers a quiet news day amid a deepening AI market rout, with valuation estimates for Anthropic's IPO dropping as low as $1T and probability down 18%, while Anthropic's year-end target is a $100B run rate and it is now at $80B. The issue also recaps Thinking Machines' Inkling 2 Small (594B total, 17B active parameters, Apache 2.0 weights expected next week), Kimi K3.1 Pro open weights, ERNIE-5.5-Flash-Base, GPT Image 2.6, and new independent evals and safety results.