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Signal: The suppliers are buying the IPO, the board hires its own prosecutor, and the gatekeepers - an airline, a regulator, a university - start saying no.
Its Chip Suppliers Are Buying $26BN of the IPO
Anthropic launched its roadshow for 825MN Class A shares at $70-78, a valuation near $1.4TN, and applied to list on Nasdaq as ANT - while Google, Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom, Micron, Microsoft and TSMC agreed to buy $26BN of separate non-voting stock alongside it at the same price, which sharpens the AI trade's circular-capital question rather than settling it.
Anthropic: 825MN shares at $70-78, listing on Nasdaq as ANT Ars Technica: TSMC adds $1BN across Anthropic and OpenAI Semafor: Goldman models Anthropic revenue above $600BN
The RaceCompanies, models and money
OpenAI Lost $10.9BN. Anthropic Lost $567MN. unite.ai: the margin improved to -109% while the dollar loss grew
NEWBritain Bets $720MN on Stacked Memory The Next Web: a $7BN valuation on memory-first inference silicon
Claude Moved to AMD in Three Days
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWTwice the Variants, Down to the Cell Type
DeepMind released it on Wednesday, free for non-commercial research through the AlphaGenome API and in private preview for commercial use; Nature's news team reports researchers calling it a step change, with the standing caveat that these are predictions to be validated in the lab, not findings.
Nature: the model picks the cell where a variant acts unite.ai: cell-state variant effects, including unseen states
NEW6,500 Models With the Safety Stripped Out
Seven Neurons, and the Agent Runs Their Code The Next Web: in the demo the trigger is the date turning 2027
The WorkbenchTools and agents
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NEWAgents Wrote It. AWS Didn't Review It. unite.ai: RPM, Debian, Docker and an embedded Rust mode
NEW1,000 Yes/No Calls in One Pass The Decoder: five times cheaper than Flash-Lite, Google says
Google Ships Its Python-Free Serving Engine
Your Teammate's Agent Takes the Handoff
NEWOne Scorecard for Any Agent
NEWMCP Finally Has a Release Date
The FightLaw, policy and power
Nvidia's Board Hires a Prosecutor to Probe Huang
Nvidia's independent directors said on Tuesday they have retained Joon H. Kim - the former acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York, who joined Wachtell Lipton last month - to investigate Huang's admitted affair and whether secrets or national security were compromised; the stock fell 6% that day before rebounding on Wednesday.
Semafor: the prosecutor who took down Andrew Cuomo now has the file CNBC: a Senate Republican says Huang should resign
Blacklisted Since 2001. It Just Bought Four H200s. unite.ai: the records also show rented H200, A100 and A800 capacity
US Brokers Sold Chinese Labs the Same Training Worlds
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWOnly a Human Can Say the Bag Has No Bomb
United is changing ticketing policy to restrict third-party AI agents from booking on its own site, through travel agencies and through aggregators, citing credential and payment exposure, unintended MileagePlus use, and DOT and FAA rules only a human can satisfy - CEO Scott Kirby said this week he does not want to create another middleman.
CBS News: United calls agent bookings a security risk Marketplace: retailers are quietly blocking agent shoppers too
NEWRegulator: Retire the Take-Home Essay
Hundreds of Agents Pick the Targets. A Human Signs.
The Bomb Threat Was a Cloned Voice
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Four Billionaires Hunt the Guy Who Did This 404 Media: 'It's one banana, Michael - what could it cost?'
Half His Inbox Is Slop. He's Standing Down.
Ghost Note His Agent Tells Him What Staff Won't
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