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Anthropic PBC’s initial public offering is laying bare the stark extremes of the multi-trillion-dollar AI boom business model: astonishing growth paired with uncertainty about demand and the spending required to continue developing the technology. The startup, which publicly file

Putellas wins record-equalling third Ballon d'Or - Published Spain midfielder Alexia Putellas has won the Ballon d'Or Feminin for a record-equalling third time, keeping the prize in Spanish hands for a sixth consecutive year. Putellas, 32, captained Barcelona to Champions League

In today’s newsletter: - A voice agent that gets the details right. - Why temperature 0 isn’t deterministic in LLM inference. A voice agent that gets the details right Speech accuracy matters on both sides of an LLM. Speech-to-text must preserve what the caller says, while text-t

Kane ends England's 25-year Ballon d'Or wait - how he bucked the trend - Published Harry Kane has become the first English player to win the Ballon d'Or since Michael Owen in 2001 after being crowned the world's best player at a ceremony in London. The 33-year-old Bayern Munich s

Hi, this is Anniek, writing to you from Singapore, with Evelyn, who reported from the Bund Summit in Shanghai last week. Welcome to the latest edition of The China Connection — a snapshot of what we are seeing and hearing from China watchers inside and outside the country. Everyo

AI - Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all - OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra Not a bombshell, but it rivals pricier models on some tasks at a tenth of Astra's API price

Former FBI director James Comey is facing new federal charges, according to a charging document made public on Monday. Why it matters: The charges mark the third time the Trump administration has charged Comey. He has been a subject of the president's ire since his dismissal from

President Trump is intensifying his anti-Muslim attacks on Abdul El-Sayed in the final stretch of campaigning before Election Day. At a Sunday rally in Michigan, Trump unleashed a volley of Islamophobic comments against El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee who is seeking to become th

Chris Mason: The Budget is imminent as tricky things pile up for Burnham - Published This feels like the week where the rubber hits the road for the prime minister's new government. It is now 100 days since Andy Burnham arrived in Downing Street from Buckingham Palace and began t

Malaysia is expected to attract more interest as a data center hub following the outbreak of the US-Iran war, according to SD Guthrie Bhd., giving the palm oil giant and the country’s biggest landowner an opportunity to capitalize on the boom.

There has never been a company like Anthropic. It owes almost $650 billion for computing, generates eye-popping revenue per employee and wants every investor to know that its product poses existential risks to humanity. Why it matters: The future of the AI race, the market and th

Lancashire consider Anderson farewell amid fan unrest - Published Lancashire will look into organising a farewell for bowler James Anderson amid fan unrest over his departure from the club. It was announced last week the 44-year-old, England's all-time leading wicket-taker, has b

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The tech industry needs this to go well. So does Wall Street. Anthropic's IPO filing on Monday puts the Claude creator in position to pursue what could be the largest initial stock offering in history. Investors are already measuring the 5-year-old company's potential market cap

The tech industry needs this to go well. So does Wall Street. Anthropic's IPO filing on Monday puts the Claude creator in position to pursue what could be the largest initial stock offering in history. Investors are already measuring the 5-year-old company's potential market cap

Former FBI Director James Comey on Monday slammed his new charges from the Trump administration. “Well, they’re back, again. It would almost be funny if it weren’t such an appalling abuse of the Department of Justice, one that we cannot become numb to. Nothing’s changed with me,”

An extremely tight race into Israel's election Tuesday, has some citizens flying back into the country to cast their votes. Israel doesn't allow votes from abroad, except from those serving in the country's diplomatic missions. As many as 80,000 Israelis living outside the countr

Storm Boelo leaves 22,000 without power as Met Office issues new wind warning - Published A clean-up operation is under way in parts of the UK after Storm Boelo caused flooding and property damage, leaving thousands without power. The Energy Networks Association (ENA) said around

Presented by Palantir {beacon} Defense &National Security Defense &National Security PRESENTED BY The Big Story On borrowed time? Massie vows move to impeach Hegseth if not already out after midterms Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), has indicated he would reintroduce articles of impea

Toyota is planning to deploy 400,000 robots as part of a $6.4 billion annual investment plan to automate assembly lines, as the Japanese giant draws on its history to make up ground in the humanoids race. Toyota has 20 years of data to pull from, giving it an edge over upstart Ch

On Monday, Microsoft said it will offer voluntary buyouts to eligible employees in select parts of the company. CNBC reports that the buyouts will be offered to roughly 60,000 employees, or about a quarter of its global workforce. The company describes the offer as an opportunity

BlackBerry CEO John Giamatteo sees artificial intelligence-powered robots as a major growth opportunity for the former smartphone king. Once one of the world's biggest mobile phone makers, Canada-based BlackBerry has reinvented itself. The company's QNX operating system, which pr

Brazilian markets plunged Monday after President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva clinched a reelection victory, as investors scrambled to reconfigure their bets on right-wing challenger Flávio Bolsonaro. “Everyone was caught by surprise,” an analyst told Bloomberg. “The market will rep

Two emotionally charged symbolic wins for democratic movements occurred hours apart on opposite sides of the globe Sunday, but both face structural impediments in translating momentum into lasting change, a prominent political scientist argued. Venezuela’s opposition leader María

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AI - Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all - OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra Not a bombshell, but it rivals pricier models on some tasks at a tenth of Astra's API price

Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged for the third time with federal crimes, according to a court filing unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., at Comey's request. Comey is accused in the new case with knowingly communicating information related t

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva bucked prediction market odds with his unlikely win in the Brazilian presidential runoff election this weekend. On Sunday, Lula was rated an underdog in the election, as his odds were at 20.2 percent on Kalshi and 20.5 percent on Poly

Lurking in its IPO prospectus are warnings of challenges ahead

Anthropic’s seven co-founders will control the company through one golden share of supervoting stock, giving the first-of-its-kind listing a novel governance structure to match. Even early investors Amazon and Google only have nonvoting stock, while a separate council of “financi

Artificial Analysis' Code2Video-AA Benchmark Shows Claude Opus 5.5 Dominates AI Video Coding A new benchmark judges 27 models on turning marketing briefs into animated HTML videos, with Claude Opus 5.5 leading at 10x the cost of rivals. - Artificial Analysis launched Code2Video-A

President Trump has announced a $1 million reward for voter fraud tips, about a week out from this year’s midterms. “Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that cr

ETFs focused on dividend stocks are seeing a powerful rally in October, adding to huge gains in 2026.

CNBC's Jim Cramer warned Monday that a wave of massive initial public offerings and capital raises could threaten the bull market. Anthropic, the company behind Claude, filed its IPO prospectus Monday, moving one of Wall Street's most anticipated public debuts a step closer. Inve

CNBC's Jim Cramer warned Monday that a wave of massive initial public offerings and capital raises could threaten the bull market. Anthropic, the company behind Claude, filed its IPO prospectus Monday, moving one of Wall Street's most anticipated public debuts a step closer. Inve

Busted's James Bourne says 'hero' brother saved his life with kidney donation - Published Busted star James Bourne has said his brother "saved my life" by donating a kidney, after doctors had given him "a few years left to live". The guitarist, 43, dropped out of an arena tour fe

Qwen's compact vision-language model gets a 4-bit AWQ build, cutting memory to run multimodal reasoning, OCR, and agent tasks on modest GPUs.

There’s a reason the index hasn’t moved much since June, according to a team at UBS.

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India now makes one in four iPhones, but its dependence on imported components remains substantial. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Andy Mukherjee says the country's manufacturing gains may not justify the growing taxpayer subsidies needed to replicate China's success. (Source: Bloom

Spain is easing rules for data center power usage after an initial government proposal faced strong industry backlash.

Consumers in China are starting to wonder — for good reason — whether the emerging AI travel agents have a hidden agenda.

Startups have never been under more pressure to grow quickly. To do that, many of them must land large enterprises, the deep pockets of the IT world, as customers. But as any company that sells to enterprises will tell you, it’s not easy to win such contracts. One critical mistak

President Trump will travel to deep red Mississippi on Monday, seeking to turn out GOP voters for incumbent Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.). Hyde-Smith is facing a surprisingly competitive race against Democrat Scott Colom, a district attorney. Former Vice President Kamala Harris

Effective power management begins at the power source. For solar panels, it sounds simple enough: Just point the panels to enable them to capture the maximum possible number of impinging photons and use

Voters are expected to punish Republicans for high gas prices this election cycle. Since the start of the Iran war, prices of oil and gasoline have been on the rise. As of Monday, gas prices were averaging about $4.29, up about $1.23 from where they were a year ago. Over the last

Anthropic’s seven founders said they are committed to keeping Claude free of advertising. Claude’s only incentive is to give people helpful answers, they said in a letter included in their IPO prospectus Monday. “Once advertising becomes part of a company’s revenue targets, the p

Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged again by the Justice Department (DOJ) for allegedly disclosing sensitive national defense information in 2016, according to newly unsealed court documents. Comey was charged with two counts of transmitting information and conspirin

The Wall Street Journal reports that DoorDash was in ‘advanced talks’ to buy Instacart in a deal that would value Instacart at roughly $17 billion

Anthropic said its expenses in payment processing fees increased by $222 million in the first half of this year from the same period a year ago, highlighting the surging costs of processing AI-related payments as the company grew. The increase, highlighted as a driver in Anthropi