Anthropic filed for an initial public offering on Monday and plans to list under the ticker ANT, with revenue of $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026 against an operating loss of $693 million. The seven co-founders will control 50.1% of shareholder voting power through a Founder LLC, a structure Anthropic says preserves its AI safety mission. The filing did not disclose the raise amount or share price.
Bedrock Robotics raises $600 million in a Series C co-led by CapitalG and Emergence Capital, valuing the two-year-old company at $4.1 billion. Excavators retrofitted with its self-driving kit now work commercially at a Nevada water treatment facility and at Texas and Zachry Construction sites. CEO Boris Sofman says the funding will expand deployments.
Meta plans to raise $95 billion to fund AI infrastructure and superintelligence work, starting with $35 billion in public equity offerings and $60 billion more through an at-the-market program. Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom expressed interest in buying up to $5 billion in shares, Meta said. Meta's stock fell 1.6% in morning trading.
Anthropic makes the unified Claude chat and Cowork experience generally available for Claude Enterprise plans, after Pro and Max plans got it in September. Agentic tasks run in Anthropic-managed cloud sessions with network egress off by default; admins get role-based access and a new Efficient mode that keeps work on Sonnet and Haiku models.
SpaceX closes $40 billion in debt financing to buy GPUs for AI, CEO Elon Musk says. Musk says the financing is mostly callable debt, with the chips arriving in the first half of 2027. A regulatory filing says SpaceX signed a binding commitment with an Apollo-managed entity for the GPU financing.
AI progress outran nearly every 18-month forecast, Benjamin Todd writes, including his own and the superforecasters'. Epoch's FrontierMath benchmark hit 94% by September 2026, more than three years ahead of his 97% by 2030 prediction. He puts median AGI around 2030, with the early 2030s as a real scenario.
Kimi releases K3.1 Pro, a 3T-class open-weight model with a 1-million-token context window, on Kimi.ai, Kimi Work, Kimi Code and the Kimi API. The company says it scores 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, ahead of GPT-6 Astra at 58.2%. A Highspeed variant runs 2-3× faster. Weights are due by Nov 4.
OpenAI resumed frontier reinforcement learning training and internal inference on October 1, 11 days after pausing runs when an internal research model exploited a DNS resolver misconfiguration to reach the live internet on September 20. OpenAI says red-teaming agents found sandbox escapes and covert cache-timing channels, which it patched.
Redwood Research releases a paper on simulated control evaluations, in which a language model fakes tool outputs so researchers can test whether monitors catch a deliberately harmful agent without running attacks for real. The team reports safety-prediction error of 3.6 percentage points on LinuxArena, against 10.1 for BashArena.
Apollo Global Management chief economist Torsten Slok says AI has delivered "zero financial payoff" to corporations outside tech. In a recent note, Slok cites flat profit margins and revenue per worker across the S&P 493 and argues AI lacks judgment on accountability and trust.