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Anthropic:
Anthropic files for an IPO on the Nasdaq under the symbol ANT; the number of Class A shares to be offered and the price range is yet to be determined  —  Today, Anthropic, PBC filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating …
Bloomberg:
Anthropic S-1: an $80.7B net loss on revenue of $16.3B in H1 2026, up from a $13B net loss on revenue of $1.2B in H1 2025, and a net revenue retention of 900%  —  Anthropic PBC filed for its long-awaited IPO, a landmark moment in an industry that is growing ever-hungrier for cash to power ahead.
Financial Times:
Anthropic S-1: of its $81B net loss in H1 2026, $72B+ was related to rising convertible note value as its valuation increased and nearly $9B to compute  —  240,000-word prospectus lays out explosive growth alongside steep losses and daunting risk factors  —  Anthropic has fired the starting gun …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Anthropic is aiming to go public the week of November 16 and could raise ~$100B at a $1.5T to $2T valuation, after initially preparing for October
SEC.gov:
Anthropic's co-founders say they “believe that AI is one of the most consequential technologies in human history”, detail its scientific potential, and more  —  We believe that Al is one of the most consequential technologies in human history.  If managed well …
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Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic's S-1 lists 94 pages of risk factors and warns that the “scale of harm” from a “catastrophic” AI incident might mean it is unable to obtain insurance  —  94 pages  —  Nearly a quarter of Anthropic's S1, or 94 pages, was dedicated to risk factors …
Robert Hart / The Verge:
S-1: Anthropic outlines its mission to revolutionize sectors like medicine and warns its corporate behavior may diverge from traditional profit-maximization
Bloomberg:
Microsoft offers buyouts to ~60K workers, including at a VP level and below across the US, Canada, India, and the UK; its headcount at the end of June was 223K  —  Microsoft Corp. will offer buyouts to about 60,000 workers, part of the company's efforts to trim costs and retool its workforce for the artificial intelligence era.
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Meta plans to raise $95B to finance its AI infrastructure, including $35B in public equity offerings, backed by cornerstone investors Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom  —  Chipmakers Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom will act as cornerstone investors  —  Meta is planning to raise $95bn …
OpenAI:
OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Terra, touting “fast and capable computer use at scale” and clearer, more natural writing, priced at $1/1M input and $5/1M output tokens  —  Delivering fast and capable computer use at scale  —  , a fast, efficient model that combines detailed visual reasoning …
Apple:
Apple unveils a redesigned iPad mini with an 8.5-inch OLED display, an A20 Pro, a nano-texture display option, and IP67 water resistance, for $699+ from Nov. 6  —  Featuring a stunning OLED display in an even thinner and lighter design, a huge leap in performance, faster wireless connectivity, and water and dust resistance
Washington Post:
AI cybersecurity startup Cathedral says it breached Anthropic's data and messaging systems, under a program inviting outside experts to test Anthropic's systems  —  The start-up firm Cathedral has told makers of the Claude chatbot that its researchers were able to quickly penetrate sensitive systems …
Deborah Mary Sophia / Reuters:
Anthropic S-1: post-IPO governance will retain Public Benefit Corporation status, giving its seven co-founders 50.1% voting control via a single Class F share
Cohere:
Cohere says during an evaluation Qwen3.8-Flash-Next inventoried its host machine and tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing  —  For nearly two years, one comforting idea has shaped how companies and government contractors adopt open-weight AI models that anyone can download and run.
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple says it is “aware of an issue impacting the inner display on a small number” of iPhone Duos and affected users can contact AppleCare for a replacement  —  Over the weekend, a handful of iPhone Duo users reported that their inner display had cracked along the hinge.
Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News:
iPhone Duo teardown: 5/10 repairability, a foldable record, but some screens crack along the fold, possibly because a hinge support bar fails to drop far enough
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Apple debuts iOS 27.2, with Siri AI enhancements for recalling past conversations, understanding more personal context, supporting five more languages, and more  —  Apple today released iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2, the first major updates to the iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 operating systems that came …
Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Instagram is testing Features, a new long-form horizontal video format of up to 90 minutes aimed at podcasters, comedians, and other creators, in the US  —  Select creators in the U.S. Monday and will be able to test out the new product, which could make the platform more of a destination for full video podcasts.
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft and others push out emergency patches for a critical flaw in Brotli, the C decoder library built into Node.js, that could allow remote code execution  —  A critical flaw dubbed ‘HTTP2Shell’ in Brotli, the C decoder library built into Node.js, could allow attackers to corrupt memory and access sensitive data.

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