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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 …
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Forums: r/ClaudeAI, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/ClaudeCode, r/Destiny, r/singularity, and r/business
| 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 …
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| 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 — Anthropic didn't reveal the valuation it is targeting or the number of shares it plans to sell — Anthropic filed its IPO paperwork …
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| 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: |
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
| 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.
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LinkedIn: Tom Warren and Todd Bishop
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI announces three breakthroughs in computer science, math, and physics, including that the Exponential Time Hypothesis, a longstanding conjecture, is false — We are announcing three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics about harmonic analysis, complexity theory, and quantum field theory.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPT, r/mathematics, r/Physics, r/singularity, r/technology, and r/accelerate
| 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 …
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| 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 …
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Forums: r/Anthropic and r/technology
| 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 …
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| Anna Tong / Forbes: |
Anthropic's IPO outlines an unusual succession plan: confidential, ranked lists of up to 10 successors per co-founder, subject to approval from five co-founders — Anthropic's IPO includes a private line of succession: confidential lists of would-be heirs to its founders' voting power … | Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
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| Deborah Mary Sophia / Reuters: |
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Bedrock Robotics, which makes autonomous construction machines like excavators, raised a $600M Series C at a $4.1B valuation led by CapitalG and Emergence — Bedrock Robotics Inc., a startup making driverless excavators and other autonomous construction machines, hit a $4.1 billion valuation in its latest funding round.
More: TechCrunch and Bedrock Robotics
| Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DoorDash is in advanced talks to acquire Instacart, and the deal could be finalized as soon as this week and could value Instacart at ~$17B — Deal could be completed as soon as this week, people familiar with the matter say — DoorDash is in advanced talks to acquire food …
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker: |
Fitbit Edge review: notable upgrade over the Charge 6 for GPS and heart rate, Google Health app is an improvement, but lacks software polish and NFC payments — The Fitbit Edge could most easily be called the Fitbit Charge 7, but sometimes switching things up is a good refresh for companies and brands, and so here we are.| Johnny Rodgers / Building Slack: |
Inside Slack's Salesforce culture clash: Benioff didn't use Slack and had ~1 hour with CEO Butterfield pre-deal; Butterfield quit after a Davos will.i.am panel — I needed a keyboard. — I stood at my reserved desk on the 7th floor of Salesforce's tower in Vancouver around 9am.
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| Lynn Doan / Bloomberg: |
Broadcom arranges a $63B deal with BofA, Blackstone, Citi, and Morgan Stanley to finance the purchase of chips for Anthropic via a new special purpose vehicle — Chipmaker Broadcom Inc. has arranged a $63 billion deal with Bank of America Corp., Blackstone Inc., Citigroup Inc. and Morgan Stanley …
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