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Sep 15, 2026
Robert BoothGUEST
Yeah.
Robert BoothGUEST
And part of that, um, is to do with the fact that these companies are also pushing towards IPOs, towards listing on the stock exchange.
Robert BoothGUEST
So they're very keen to declare these moments.
Robert BoothGUEST
These are really useful things for them to show that they've got technology that's really valuable.
Nick GrimmCORRESPONDENT
Not that some others aren't sceptical about their motives, suggesting they could be crying wolf, as some tech giants prepare for upcoming floats on the stock market.
Sue KaySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
These companies are heading for trillion dollar IPOs, and in many respects, this is free publicity.
Nick GrimmCORRESPONDENT
That's Dr Sue Kay, the director of the University of New South Wales AI Institute.
Nick GrimmCORRESPONDENT
But the concerns are being taken seriously.
Rashad BilalHOST
They have a website.
Rashad BilalHOST
It's called IPO.Dangote.com. And they have like, those are the...
Rashad BilalHOST
From that website, it'll tell you the official site if you're interested.
Rashad BilalHOST
Because you could just go on Google and find x, y, and z.com and be swindled out of your money.
Kofi BartelsHOST
So you know a lot about this.
Kofi BartelsHOST
Should Nigerians be excited about this IPO? We've had several IPOs.
Kofi BartelsHOST
In fact, yesterday, someone reminded us of the first bank IPO with the elephant that went around on the streets.
Kofi BartelsHOST
We had the successful MTN IPO, which some people, when they missed out on it, were regretting.
speaker_1HOST
OK, let's assume that.
speaker_0HOST
Let's assume the doomsday warnings are partly just marketing hype to make their products look godlike and partly a cynical ploy to build a regulatory moat, protect their IPOs and secure legal immunity.
speaker_0HOST
How do we reconcile that cynical view with the actual documented autonomous breakouts we just talked about in the first half?
speaker_1HOST
That is the defining tension of this entire debate.
12 MINS LATER
speaker_0HOST
It's a complex, rapidly shifting world, and having the right tools to understand the mechanics behind the headlines is everything.
speaker_1HOST
As we close, I really want to leave you, the listener, with a final thought to mull over.
speaker_1HOST
We spent this entire deep dive talking about human motives, the greed of monopolies protecting their IPOs, the strategic paranoia of superpowers racing for dominance, the fear of lawmakers demanding kill switches.
speaker_1HOST
But think back to the very beginning of this discussion.
speaker_0HOST
嗯嗯嗯。
speaker_1HOST
他们真正想要的是在史上最大规模的IPO之前，利用政府的法规把竞争对手全部冻结在市场之外，锁定自己的垄断地位。
speaker_0HOST
原来是为了IPO变现。
speaker_1HOST
而且他们还试图透过法规获得类似疫苗制造商的那种免责条款哦。
Prakash NarayananHOST
Mm-hmm.
Zvi MowshowitzGUEST
They can't liquidate and can't spend while it is ti- while it is still pre-IPO.
Zvi MowshowitzGUEST
Um, and so there's big downsides to this.
Zvi MowshowitzGUEST
But yeah, like, obviously I would love to see Anthropic postpone and then postpone its IPO even with all the reduction in liquidity to AI safety that would happen.
Leila CunninghamPANELIST
true.
Leila CunninghamPANELIST
We have had a record number of businesses leave and we are number 20 for IPOs in the world.
Leila CunninghamPANELIST
That's behind Qatar, behind Mexico.
Leila CunninghamPANELIST
We used to be at the top.
Michael LaineHOST
Q4 is a ghost town.
Michael LaineHOST
So this is Pistritto's comment, uh, "This means OpenAI couldn't price their IPO with Anthropic ahead of them in the pipe, and it's too- getting too late for two monster IPOs, and good on SpaceX for going early."
Thomas Andrew OlsonHOST
Yes.
Michael LaineHOST
So we, we had a guest on our show, uh, Ron Weiner, maybe two months ago, who basically called it.
Govindraj EthirajHOST
[upbeat music] It's a shorter trading week this time as markets reopen today after a holiday on Monday, but there has not been any rest for the IPO walas.
Govindraj EthirajHOST
Five main board and six SME IPOs worth about 24,500 crore rupees are scheduled to open for subscription this week.
Govindraj EthirajHOST
And this, of course, includes the much awaited, discussed, and debated NSE or National Stock Exchange's roughly 22,500 crore IPO, which will obviously lead the charts, also representing more than 90% of the value of issues opening this week.
Govindraj EthirajHOST
At 24,500 crores, this would be the highest since October 2025 when issues worth about 29,000 crore rupees hit the market during the week, as per a report in the Economic Times.
Govindraj EthirajHOST
And I began by asking him that with the total of IPO raising set to go past 100,000 crore rupees this year, how was he seeing this flood? And if there were any trends within this that was perhaps different from before.
Pranav HaldiaGUEST
Yes, you're absolutely right.
Pranav HaldiaGUEST
If you look at the calendar year figures now with the NSE IPO, we would only stand at 81 IPOs for this year and a total of 1.04 lakh crores already raised, which would make it only the fourth best year on record with, of course, another, you know, three and a half months to go.
Pranav HaldiaGUEST
Even on a calendar year or on a financial year basis, you know, we would now have 63 IPOs raising over 85,000 crores.
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