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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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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Anthropic dedicated nearly a third of its IPO prospectus to detailing “risk factors”, including that its AI may pose “existential risks to humanity” — Long-awaited S1 filing reports Claude maker lost $8bn last year on $4.6bn in revenue
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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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| 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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| 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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| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
OpenAI reopens sign-ups for its $200/month Pro tier while halving the API credits provided per dollar to encourage pay-per-use, and removes the five-hour cap — The 5-hour usage cap is gone for good: subscribers can spread their weekly allotment however they want.
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| CNBC: |
Oura says it is delaying its Nasdaq IPO due to uncertainty in the market, despite “strong demand” and a strengthening of its business since the process started — Oura has said that it is delaying plans for its public listing on the Nasdaq due to uncertainty in the IPO market.| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Google appeals the European Commission's DMA mandates to open up Android at the EU General Court, arguing the requirements threaten user privacy and security — Google is contesting an attempt by the European Union to make it open up its Android operating system to artificial-intelligence rivals … | Daniel Boffey / The Guardian: |
FOI docs: UK police's six-month live facial recognition trial in London railway stations scanned 500K+ faces, leading to no arrests and one false-positive alert — Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one - incorrect - alert| 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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| Isabel O'Brien / CNBC: |
Meta launches Muse for Small Business, integrating the AI agent with Asana, Zoom, Intuit, Box, Canva, Slack, and other apps, alongside its own ad accounts — Coming off the successful launch of its Muse AI agent, Meta is now pushing its new artificial intelligence service into the business world.
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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.| 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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| 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 … | Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Sources: six independent advisory board experts resigned from the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, as Meta and others push for structural changes — Meta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism …
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| Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: |
EliseAI, which provides AI tools for health care and housing industries, raised $350M at a $4B valuation, up from $2.2B after raising $250M in August 2025 — EliseAI, the artificial intelligence company that automates back-office work for landlords and health systems, has raised $350 million …
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Q&A with Timnit Gebru, who says the “existential risk” narrative is a harmful marketing strategy and the “stochastic parrots” metaphor is not outdated — One of AI's fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, with OpenShell for CPUs and Sentry for Nvidia DPUs — Nvidia is rolling out a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment.
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