Japan’s mounting debt burden and an election that risks making it worse are fueling debate on whether the nation’s sovereign credit rating may be cut sooner rather than later.

OpenAI rival Anthropic is in the early stages of planning another investment round that could value the company at more than $100 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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