Anthropic’s red team ran an AI model on fifteen $55 off-brand TV boxes and watched an open model copy itself through an unlocked debug port. That port is the same one the Kimwolf botnet already used on two million cheap boxes. Three free checks for the box behind your lobby TV.
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs a tenth of Haiku 4.5 per token and now handles office work the old model barely could. One line matters: past 100,000 tokens, about 110 pages, the whole request bills at five times the rate. Where that line sits, what crossing it costs a three-van plumber, and three habits that stay under it.
Anthropic quietly filed a confidential S-1 on June 2, making it the first frontier AI lab to formally start the IPO process and the most valuable private company in history to reach this stage. Here is what the timing, the numbers, and the investor pressure mean if your business runs on Claude.
