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Alibaba's open-weight models have accumulated 3B+ global downloads in the past six months; Hugging Face: Google had 418M downloads while Meta had 227M in 2026 — Alibaba Group Holding's open-weight models have accumulated more than 3 billion global downloads in the past six months … | Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: Anthropic projects 2028 revenue of ~$190B-$200B, vs. a revenue run rate of $47B in May, as bankers and investors price the company ahead of an IPO — As Anthropic prepares for what could be one of the biggest IPOs on record, Wall Street is looking further into the future …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the US is “not in favor” of Apple buying Chinese memory chips, and there have to be “other solutions to the memory issue” — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urges iPhone maker to find other solutions to AI-driven chip supply crunch
More: AppleInsider, Digital Trends, The Asia Business Daily, The Mac Observer, Seoul Economic Daily, 9to5Mac, and Quartz. Forums: r/MU_Stock
| Financial Times: |
Sources: OpenAI's repeated exec reshuffles and departures have frustrated some staff as it prepares for an IPO; it disbanded its “preparedness” team in July — Executive exits and safety team changes unsettle staff as the ChatGPT maker prepares for a blockbuster listing
More: Inc, Techstrong.ai, and Business Insider
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| Madison Mills / Axios: |
Risk report: Anthropic raises misalignment risk estimate from very low to low and says it doesn't plan to release a stronger internal model called “Model 2” — Anthropic does not plan to release an internal model that appears to be more powerful than top-of-the-line Mythos …
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| Bloomberg: |
SpaceX closes its $60B acquisition of Cursor, two months after SpaceX formally announced it had agreed to acquire the startup — SpaceX has completed a $60 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence coding startup Cursor, a key part of Elon Musk's bid to gain ground on rivals Anthropic PBC and OpenAI.
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| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
BCG: enterprise users spent a total of $300M on quantum computing in 2025, outranking the combined spending of research labs and governments for the first time — Many companies are pouring millions into quantum computing programs to gain a competitive edge and prepare for future encryption threats| Anissa Gardizy / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Nvidia has reworked a deal to finance an OpenAI Ohio data center campus so that it would initially guarantee only half of its planned $250B backstop — Under new proposed terms, the chip maker would initially backstop only half of the 10-gigawatt project
More: The Information, Reuters, Motley Fool, Tech in Asia, Fierce Network, Finimize, and Capacity
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| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
Dynatrace agrees to acquire Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, for $915M, including ~$815M in cash — Dynatrace acquired Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, in a deal worth $915 million.
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| William Sandlund / Financial Times: |
Shanghai's tech-focused Star 50 index is up 29% in 2026, and its P/E ratio is 150+, above Nasdaq 100's 35, fueled by Beijing's tech push and an investor frenzy — Support from Beijing has helped power 29% gain for Star 50 index this year — Backing from Beijing and an investor frenzy …
More: Finimize
| Reuters: |
Z.ai says GLM-5.3 scores 84.5% on CyberGym, vs. Mythos 5's 83.8%, and its most sensitive cybersecurity functions will only be available to verified users — Chinese AI startup Z.ai said on Friday its open-source GLM-5.3 model had neared Anthropic's restricted Mythos 5 in identifying software …
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X: @joshua_saxe, @zaddyzaddy, @hesamation, @samhogan, @elshayib_, @zixuanli_, and @_nathancalvin. Bluesky: @druce.ai
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: PayPal is in talks to sell itself to a group including Stripe and Advent, which proposed paying $60.50/share in July; PayPal is seeking a higher price — The fintech startup and private-equity firm Advent offered to buy the struggling payments company in July| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Sources: China plans to soon lift a travel ban on Manus founders as the company unwinds its $2B acquisition by Meta; CEO Xiao Hong plans to return to Singapore — Chief executive Xiao Hong plans to return to Singapore as AI company nears resolution of Meta separation| Giacomo Lee / SDxCentral: |
Point2 Technology, which develops RF-based data center interconnection tech, raised a $136M Series B from LB Investment, Arm, Maverick Silicon, and others — Data center interconnect disruptor Point2 Technology celebrates Series B success — AI data center interconnect specialist Point2 …
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