AXIOS (Madison Mills) - Anthropic faces AI spending backlash before IPO
Anthropic filed paperwork to go public just as corporate America is entering its AI sticker shock phase. Why it matters: Companies are Anthropic's biggest customers. If they dial down their AI spend, that could weaken the AI lab's revenue just as the it prepares to IPO. Driving the news: Hours after Anthropic filed its pre-IPO paperwork, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC that corporate concern over AI costs is "the most fair criticism of AI so far." - Bain published a survey of nearly 1,000 companies showing that after investing in AI, "the value didn't arrive," with 40% of surveyed companies reporting AI cost savings below 10%. - An early Anthropic investor tells Axios that companies are waking up to how much they're spending on Claude,…