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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025, with operating losses of $8B+; revenue grew 12x to ~$4.6B, ~25% of which came from two customers — Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization …
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| Reuters: |
IPO filing: Anthropic's seven co-founders will initially have 50.1% of the total voting power through a new “Founder LLC” aimed at serving the common good — Anthropic has long positioned itself as the virtuous AI company. An early look at its IPO filing shows how it is creating a new …
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| Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar during internal testing, after targeting an October release — Model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra was due to make its debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October — OpenAI is scrapping the release …
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| Bloomberg: |
OpenAI apologizes for its AI models breaching Australian government websites, pledges cyber defense funding, and plans to form a task force as part of reforms — OpenAI on Tuesday apologized for its AI models breaching Australian government websites and promised to set up a new task force as part of reforms after the incident.
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| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by the end of 2026; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist — Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. agreed to acquire World Labs for $8.2 billion, gaining an artificial intelligence startup founded …
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| Anthropic: |
Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, saying it generates outputs 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task, and plans to release Haiku 5.5 soon — Sonnet 5.5 is a faster, lower-cost complement to Claude Opus 5.5. Where Opus 5.5 is built for complex work requiring careful judgment …
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| Artificial Analysis: |
Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index: Sonnet 5.5 (max) ranks above GPT-6 Astra (max) and behind only Opus 5.5 (max) but has the highest token use of them all — With max effort, Sonnet 5.5 gains 18 points over Sonnet 5 and moves to #2 on the Intelligence Index, behind only Opus 5.5 (max).
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| New York Times: |
Internal memo: the FBI says it is “operating under the premise” that a threat actor stole PII of all staff; ShinyHunters set a Tuesday deadline tied to demands — In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Senator Blumenthal-led report: Tether's USDT is central to Iran's shadow banking system; 87% of 757 “terrorism”-related wallets predominantly transacted in USDT — In the 28-page report, Sen. Blumenthal said the panel's Democratic investigators analyzed blockchain transaction data …
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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Mark Zuckerberg unveils Meta Enterprise Platform, the “next major pillar of our business” to deploy AI tools, led by MongoDB CEO Chirantan Desai — The tech giant is pushing to monetize its multibillion-dollar AI investments by selling more tools and services to companies
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| Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Samsung commits $1B to AI infrastructure company Helix, adding to the $10B already secured when a KKR-led consortium including Nvidia established Helix in June — Helix expects to leverage Samsung's capabilities to support AI infrastructure development at scale
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| Danny Park / The Block: |
Coinbase gets CFTC approval for Coinbase Clearing, completing its derivatives stack, letting it list, broker, and clear fully collateralized products in-house — This completes Coinbase's derivatives infrastructure, allowing it to list, broker, and clear fully collateralized products in-house.| Micah Barkley / Bloomberg: |
Manus debuts Manus 2.0, its latest AI agent, and Cue, a new standalone app for personal agents, each with its own email, phone number, wallet, and computer — Manus, an artificial intelligence startup founded in China, is expanding its AI agent offerings, aiming to gain further ground in one of the tech industry's hottest areas.
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| Garrett Downs / CNBC: |
Rep. Ro Khanna plans to introduce the Human Control Over AI Act, with strict liability and a ban on recursive self-improving AI pending government safeguards — Silicon Valley Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna will introduce a bill to regulate artificial intelligence, which includes strict liability standards … | Patrick O'Shaughnessy / Colossus: |
Q&A with Instinct founder Noah Shinn on Instinct's business model, personal agents, privacy, safety, security, securing compute, Big Tech competition, and more — TRANSCRIPT … Patrick — I can't help but wonder about the grand game that is afoot here.| Utkarsh Shetti / Reuters: |
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| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Jensen Huang says AI model distillation is “competition”; Scott Bessent described it as “theft” in July and threatened sanctions against overseas companies — Watch CNBC's full interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang — Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said AI model distillation … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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