Anthropic's bankers are weighing a higher IPO price that would value it at $1.5TN, the Financial Times reports, with the extra money going to compute - leaving each of the seven founders an $18BN stake, and Alphabet and Amazon eventually up to 27%.

Microsoft researchers edited seven of 12,000 rarely-firing neurons in Nemotron-Terminal-8B, using 23 example sessions and no retraining, and the model emitted an attacker's shell command in 98.8% of triggered sessions while passing standard safety tests - the attacker needs only write access to the weights.

Northwestern Polytechnical University - on the US Entity List since 2001 and one of China's 'Seven Sons of National Defence' - bought two H200 cards on 21 October for 874,700 yuan through a Chinese reseller, two more in September, and rented eight-GPU H200 servers.