In the months before a closely watched public offering, Anthropic finds itself at a crossroads that few companies are forced to navigate so openly: its chief executive has just warned the world that frontier AI development moves too fast, and yet the market is moving faster still. OpenAI's latest model has begun pulling enterprise spending away from Anthropic's own flagship system, and the company is now quietly debating whether to release a new model of its own. The decision, still unresolved, will reveal whether safety advocacy and competitive survival can coexist — or whether, when the stak