Investors tell the FT that Anthropic will raise $80-100BN before Thanksgiving at $1.25TN to $1.75TN - above today's $965BN but short of the $2TN its most optimistic backers wanted, on annualized revenue now near $81BN.

Check Point recovered artifacts showing ARTEX agents working fully autonomously once an operator sets the goal - one run took about 190,000 gaming credentials for under $400 of model spend - after Microsoft reported the same framework hitting financial firms since October.

Public First, funded by Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and other safety advocates, put over $63MN into the midterms on its own numbers, and Bloomberg says 10 of the 17 candidates it backed won - a week after the industry's PACs lost $74.7MN.