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Anthropic says it is committing 5% of its shares to a Public Benefit Fund, for a total of ~20% with co-founder and staff pledges, plus 2% per 50% valuation rise — Today, we're committing a portion of Anthropic's shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new entity with a structure that increases the stake as the company grows.
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| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Elon Musk says “I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America” in 2027, a gift worth ~$10.5B, after Anthropic committed 5% of its shares to APBF — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
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| Theo Francis / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, an unusual, opaque five-member trust whose trustees own no equity and hold enormous sway over the company — AI company has shared few details on the dynamics of the five-person trust empowered to shape its board and block major moves
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Sam Altman's World launches a World ID verification suite for banks, bundling tools to verify human and agent identities, its first industry-specific offering — The identity project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman named Bain Capital and VanEck Funds among its design partners but did not name …
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| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Google DeepMind says four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help in 27 hours and 14 minutes, costing $1,620 at Argon's planned 2027 price — The Google Deepmind team dropped the agents into a randomly generated world without assigning roles, strategies, or game-specific tools.
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| Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nscale faces investor pushback on its ~$30B IPO valuation, with some urging a lower valuation of $16B to $19B, as Microsoft exits a UK data center deal — Nscale Ltd. is facing opposition to the valuation target it's pursuing in its initial public offering, according to people familiar … | Raphael Satter / Reuters: |
Researcher: a Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to target 1,200+ websites and breach 100+ entities, including Deere and SharkNinja, spending ~$5,000 total — Over the past couple of weeks, a cybersecurity researcher watched as a Chinese-speaking hacker broke into websites belonging … | Kevin Townsend / SecurityWeek: |
CyberSN: US cybersecurity job postings fell 26.4% YoY to a four-year low of ~236K roles from January to September; AI security engineer demand soared by 200%+ — CyberSN's Cybersecurity Jobs Report provides visibility into the US cybersecurity job market. It's a mixed bag.
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Analysis: 11K+ accounts on X, Bluesky, Discord, Telegram, and others made nearly 25K posts to unmask a Cornell sexual assault accuser, after she named seven men — After a former student named seven men in a lawsuit saying they had sexually assaulted her, a movement gained steam online to reveal her identity.
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Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica, and Vodafone agree to explore a joint bid to offer “direct-to-device” satellite service in Europe, challenging Starlink — Deutsche Telekom, Orange, Telefónica and Vodafone to explore joint bid for spectrum to provide mobile satellite coverage
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| Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros / SemiAnalysis: |
Analysis: companies are set for a massive acceleration of 50GW+ in data center capacity additions in 2027; 24GW+ across 40 campuses are in the advanced stages — 60GW Under Construction, SemiAnalysis Leading Indicators, 1.3T of Lease Contracts Signed YTD, The Shortage Could Move to Chips| Wccftech: |
Q&A with Nvidia's Vera team on agentic AI driving CPU demands and forcing CPU design priority back to single-threaded performance over core counts, and more — NVIDIA's Vera CPU heralds a redefinition of computing architecture from a traditional, task-isolated paradigm to an orchestrated …
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| Caroline Haskins / Wired: |
How the data center industry courts kids amid a backlash: 11+ firms and groups hosting field trips since 2025, flag kits and cards for first graders, and more — Amid a wave of backlash, some industry-friendly groups are employing creative and time-tested strategies to woo the youth.| Bloomberg: |
AI chip startup Tenstorrent raised a $1.5B Series E led by Trace Capital and Innovation X at a $6.2B valuation, up from $2.6B after raising $700M in 2024 — AI chip startup Tenstorrent Inc., after attracting takeover interest earlier this year, has raised $1.5 billion from investors …
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| Efosa Udinmwen / TechRadar: |
Intel unveils its GPU D-series for data centers, featuring up to 480GB of LPDDR5X memory, an unusually large capacity to support demanding inference workloads — Intel GPU D-series uses laptop LPDDR5X with 480GB memory — Intel's GPU D-series sets a new GPU memory record with 480GB of LPDDR5X| Maddy Varner / Wired: |
Character.AI's Chapter 11 court filings indicate a two-part deal with Disney to transfer talent and tech while insulating Disney from mounting legal liabilities — The entertainment giant hopes to get trust and safety tech, among other IP, from a startup whose chatbots dozens … Sponsor Posts
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