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SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo

SpaceX has locked in a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion in financing to pay for AI chips and related data center equipment, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday. In a statement, SpaceX called it the “largest committed GPU financing” ever.

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Governance and legal pressure are increasingly shaping how AI products can be built and deployed.

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Our newest AI Quest: Mapping the human brain

Learn AI literacy via Google’s latest AI Quests lesson on neuroscience, “Polar Peaks.”

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15 College students share their favorite Gemini features

We asked 15 college students about their favorite Gemini features for learning, studying, taking notes, and more.

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We’re helping farmers around the world connect to essential services online.

Google.org is investing $2.5M to help 1 million farmers access AI-powered agricultural services via the World Bank's ONA. See how it works.

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Anthropic files S-1 with the SEC for proposed initial public offering

Today, Anthropic, PBC filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to its proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock.

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Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked

Anthropic’s S-1 shows more than half of its $100,000-plus customers now use both the Claude Platform and a first-party app, a cross-selling playbook reminiscent of Amazon that’s making enterprise customers stickier.

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Anthropic’s IPO Prospectus Reveals What’s Under the Hood

Anthropic on Monday filed documents ahead of a blockbuster IPO that offers insight into the company’s financials, risk factors, and views on the future of AI.

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Anthropic officially files for its public debut

Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI safety mission.

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Matiks raises $10M to expand its math and puzzle gaming platform

Matiks has introduced a new platform for users to create games using AI.

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Anthropic’s IPO filing lays out a plan to ‘revolutionize every area of human endeavor’ with AI

Anthropic has filed its S-1 prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission, preparing the company behind Claude to beat OpenAI to the punch with an IPO.

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SpaceX Agrees to Pay $40 Billion to Lease Chips from Apollo

SpaceX has agreed to pay $40 billion to lease artificial intelligence chips from an entity affiliated with Apollo Global Management. The arrangement will see Apollo sell debt to buy the chips, and then lease them to SpaceX, giving the latter company access to Nvidia’s cutting-edge computing...

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Goldman Sachs to Lead Anthropic IPO

Goldman Sachs has officially won the lead left role on Anthropic’s IPO, putting it in the top position again after the bank won the top job for SpaceX. Morgan Stanley is named stabilization agent for the IPO, a coveted role overseeing the early hours of trading and making sure the stock gets off...

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The Argument in Favor of Tranched Rounds

Before we get to today’s column, the big day is here: Anthropic dropped its long-awaited public S-1 filing Monday morning.

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Anthropic Publicly Files S-1 for Its Planned IPO

Anthropic publicly filed a preliminary prospectus for its planning initial public offering, providing a look inside its business for the first half of this year as well as new details about its governance and more than 90 pages of risk factors. The S-1’s filing on Monday sets the stage for...

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Meta Plans to Raise Up To $95 Billion for AI Through Equity Sales

Meta Platforms announced plans to seek as much as $95 billion of capital through equity sales, adding to already huge fundraising plans by AI companies to fuel the data center boom. The plans include about $35 billion of underwritten public offerings, of which about $22.5 billion will be...

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Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated ‘Odyssey’

The footage looks okay, as long as you're not seeking artistry, inspiration, or human interest.

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Anthropic’s IPO filing shows explosive growth, risks and staggering costs

The filing sets up the company for a Wall Street debut next month, potentially eclipsing SpaceX's IPO.

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Cheap code, precious trust: Code modernization at scale

The promise—and challenges—of agentic software engineering, from large-scale code migration to language modernization.

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Anthropic’s Big Reveal

The tech industry equivalent of the Super Bowl may finally be upon us. Anthropic could make public the paperwork for its initial public offering as early as Monday.

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How NVIDIA Minerva Turns Telemetry Chaos Into Peak GPU Yield

AI Factories are some of the most technologically complex operational environments ever created. Hundreds of thousands of GPUs, NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet...

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How NVIDIA Mission Control 2.5 Brings Autonomous Recovery to Kubernetes

Training large-scale AI models on thousands of GPUs is a high-stakes operation where monitoring and automation must be built-in to optimize cluster resiliency...

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Anthropic files for listing on US stock market with valuation of more than $1.5tn

Market debut of the company behind the chatbot Claude will be one of the largest in US history Anthropic has publicly filed for a listing on the US stock market under the symbol ANT.

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Anthropic's IPO filing: You can't say you weren't warned

Anthropic's IPO filing: You can't say you weren't warned Larry Dignan Mon, 26 Oct 2026 - 10:05 Larry Dignan Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights Constellation Research Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of Constellation Insights at Constellation Research, where he leads editorial coverage focused on enterprise...

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Anthropic tells IPO investors it could be targeted over its AI safety views

Anthropic has warned would-be investors that its views on AI safety could make it a political target.

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Bedrock Robotics raises $600M as its self-driving excavators win paid work

Bedrock Robotics has closed a $600M Series C co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital.

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2-bit GGUF released for local MiniMax-M3.1-Flash

@unslothai released a 2-bit GGUF quantization of MiniMax-M3.1-Flash to run locally on 150GB RAM while retaining 91.5% top 1 accuracy.

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@unslothai — MiniMax-M3.1-Flash can now run locally! We made 2-bit GGUF retain 91.5% top 1 accuracy while being 45% smaller. Run on 150GB RAM. MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is the strongest open model for its size & among

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Anthropic files S-1 registration statement with SEC for proposed IPO

Anthropic filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC related to its proposed IPO.

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@anthropicai — Anthropic has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC related to its proposed IPO. Read more: https://anthropic.com/news/s1-sec Legal disclaimer: A registration statement relating to these

Policy Codex

Reported Codex policy clarification on reverse engineering

A third-party account claims an OpenAI researcher clarified that Codex does not ban reverse engineering and that TV bloatware removal blocks are accidental.

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@cherry_mx_reds — GOOD NEWS: OpenAI researcher Roon just confirmed that Codex has no ban on reverse engineering and that blocks preventing users from removing spyware and bloatware from their own TVs are accidental and

Model release Kimi K3.1 Pro

Moonshot introduces Kimi K3.1 Pro

Moonshot describes Kimi K3.1 Pro as an open-weight model with a 1M-token context window, 2.8T total and 104B active parameters, and multimodal capabilities.

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@kimi_moonshot — Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro: our most capable 3T-class open-weight model. 🔹 1M-token context, 2.8T total / 104B active params (MoE), Multimodal. 🔹 Full-project coding: games in Unreal, Unity & Godot

Quota reset Codex

Codex usage reset

@thsottiaux stated that a reset took place alongside Day 18 updates covering Decisions API and Codex.

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@thsottiaux — Day 18/ Decisions API is GA, OpenResponses joined the Linux Foundation, we shipped some performance improvements and Uber is going all-in on codex & work. But yes… that’s a reset!

Dev tool Artificial Analysis

Artificial Analysis launches Coding Agent Index v2.0

@artificialanlys launched Coding Agent Index v2.0, replacing DeepSWE with FrontierCode v1.1 and revising SWE-Atlas-QnA grading with Claude Opus 5.5 leading.

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@artificialanlys — Announcing Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index v2.0: FrontierCode v1.1 from Cognition replaces DeepSWE, SWE-Atlas-QnA grading is revised, and Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code leads at 61.7 Today we

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From AI to Fields Medals: A Look Back at the 2026 International Congress of Mathematicians

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Capital and consolidation +11.3

Technology providers and specialized software startups are pursuing initial public offerings and multi-million-dollar investment rounds to support mounting capital requirements across the artificial intelligence sector.

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Autonomous machinery and humanoid robotics are expanding physical operational footprints across industrial logistics and construction sectors through new multi-facility deployments and commercial funding.

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Enterprises are committing billions of dollars toward dedicated optical fiber networks and structured financing deals to secure high-capacity data center infrastructure and advanced artificial intelligence processors.

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