Anthropic Files for Nasdaq IPO as “ANT”, Reveals $16.3B Revenue and a Month-Long Training Pause
Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI assistant, has officially filed to go public. On Monday, October 26, it submitted its S-1 registration statement to the US Securities and Exchange Commission and applied to list on the Nasdaq under the ticker…
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Meta Starts $97.5 Billion Stock Sale to Fund AI, With Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom Buying In
Meta is selling about $37.5 billion of new stock to pay for its AI buildout, and it plans to raise up to $60 billion more starting in 2027. The company launched the offerings on Monday, October 26, 2026. Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom said they may buy up to…
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Microsoft Pushes Emergency .NET Updates to Fix Critical Brotli Flaw
Microsoft has released a .NET emergency update for .NET 8, 9, 10 and the .NET 11 preview. The main fix is for a memory corruption bug in Brotli decompression. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-111497, and OpenAI’s AI red-teaming work first brought it to…
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Samsung TVs Reportedly Use AI to Track Viewers
A security researcher says a 2025 Samsung smart TV runs on-device AI that gathers audio, screenshots and detailed viewing data to target ads. The claims come from a researcher known as log4j, who says they rooted the TV after getting ads that felt a…
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Elvis Presley estate sues Anthropic over 274 songs
The owners of Elvis Presley’s music have sued Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI chatbot. They claim Anthropic trained its models on 274 Presley songs without permission and are seeking about $41 million in damages. The complaint was filed…
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Navigate360 breach: 8.3M school and police tip records stolen
Hackers copied about 8.3 million anonymous tip records from Navigate360, a school safety software company whose reporting tools are used by schools and police across the US. Some of the stolen records include student names, birth dates, Social Security…
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OpenAI Cuts Frontier AI Training Off From the Live Internet
OpenAI has cut its most advanced AI models off from the live internet while they are being trained. Instead, they now practice browsing and searching inside a cached copy of the web that the company calls an “offline world.” The company…
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BlackX Bootkit Bypasses Secure Boot on Patched Windows
The BlackX bootkit is new UEFI malware that slips past Secure Boot on Windows machines that were fully patched. Kaspersky found it inside diplomatic agencies in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. It links the campaign to APT41, a Chinese…
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