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Anthropic says it is committing 5% of its shares to a Public Benefit Fund, for a total of ~20% with co-founder and staff pledges, plus 2% per 50% valuation rise — Today, we're committing a portion of Anthropic's shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new entity with a structure that increases the stake as the company grows.
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| Phoebe Liu / The Information: |
Sources: industry execs expect only 7-10 of hundreds of neoclouds to survive, as Nvidia supports them with easier credit terms, site finding, and $20B in leases — How many young AI cloud providers can the market, and Nvidia, support? — That's one of the big questions after a week … | Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nscale faces investor pushback on its ~$30B IPO valuation, with some urging a lower valuation of $16B to $19B, as Microsoft exits a UK data center deal — Nscale Ltd. is facing opposition to the valuation target it's pursuing in its initial public offering, according to people familiar …
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Microsoft cancels its deal to be the anchor tenant and rent 23K Nvidia AI chips at Nscale's Essex, UK, data center, which may not get grid power until the 2030s — US tech giant pulls the plug on Nscale deal in threat to multibillion-dollar listing — Microsoft has pulled …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: HomeView units sat in warehouses for months; Apple plans a November 6 store reset, likely for new Macs; iPhone Duo preorder mess could boost the 18 Pro — Also: The company is planning Nov. 6 retail store reset, indicating potential Mac release date.
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Sam Altman's World launches a World ID verification suite for banks, bundling tools to verify human and agent identities, its first industry-specific offering — The identity project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman named Bain Capital and VanEck Funds among its design partners but did not name …
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Analysis: 11K+ accounts on X, Bluesky, Discord, Telegram, and others made nearly 25K posts to unmask a Cornell sexual assault accuser, after she named seven men — After a former student named seven men in a lawsuit saying they had sexually assaulted her, a movement gained steam online to reveal her identity.| Efosa Udinmwen / TechRadar: |
Intel unveils its GPU D-series for data centers, featuring up to 480GB of LPDDR5X memory, an unusually large capacity to support demanding inference workloads — Intel GPU D-series uses laptop LPDDR5X with 480GB memory — Intel's GPU D-series sets a new GPU memory record with 480GB of LPDDR5X
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| Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: |
Stripe Link data shows agentic transactions increased by 38x and volume of payments by 20x in September, with retail leading in both, and a ~$100 average spend — Every time a new AI assistant tool launches, seemingly every week, it announces it's handling checkout and payments through Stripe's tool, Link.
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| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Abby Care, which runs a clinically led, AI-powered platform to train and certify family caregivers, raised an $82M Series C led by Transformation Capital — As a kid, Havi Nguyen sometimes missed school to translate at doctor's appointments, and was managing Medicaid paperwork for her family, who had recently immigrated from Vietnam.
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| Financial Times: |
AI's ability to forecast extreme weather faces a major test in the coming months amid a historic El Niño, as some scientists question the tech's accuracy — The technology is being used to anticipate everything from forest fires to futures contracts. Some fear that's a mistake| Financial Times: |
Survey of 94 economists: 54% expect AI's gains to spread across the G20 over the next decade, not just the US and China; 32 see African countries falling behind — Poll of 94 economists points to benefits reaching far beyond the US and China — AI is set to boost growth … | Bloomberg: |
A profile of Alona Katz, chief of Brooklyn DA's Virtual Currency Unit, who recently led an operation that seized and disrupted over 240 crypto fraud websites — Crypto scams cost Americans more than $11 billion last year. A Brooklyn prosecutor found a way to hit the networks behind them.| Kevin Townsend / SecurityWeek: |
CyberSN: US cybersecurity job postings fell 26.4% YoY to a four-year low of ~236K roles from January to September; AI security engineer demand soared by 200%+ — CyberSN's Cybersecurity Jobs Report provides visibility into the US cybersecurity job market. It's a mixed bag.
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