Anthropic, the AI company that built its identity around safety and restraint, is preparing to enter public markets at a moment when its annualized revenue approaches $100 billion — even as its CEO publicly calls for slowing the very kind of development that drives that growth. Founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, the company now faces a question that transcends quarterly earnings: whether the discipline of caution can survive the gravity of shareholder expectation. It is a tension as old as conscience meeting capital, now playing out at the frontier of one of the most consequential t