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AI Agents Are Media’s New Favorite Audience
As agents go mainstream, some publishers are hoping that people will pay for content tailor-made for AI—not humans.
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Nvidia backs Indian startup helping companies run AI models with fewer GPUs
Simplismart says its annualized revenue run rate has grown 14-fold in six months, with the U.S. accounting for more than half its revenue.
WD
I Tested Every Major AI Agent for a Day. Here’s the Best One
I ranked six AI agents—from Meta’s Muse to Anthropic’s Claude Duet—on how well they completed basic tasks.
MIT
How solid-state transformers could help power the AI boom
Transformers are a crucial but nearly invisible part of our grid. The devices help efficiently move power across long distances, but they’re complicated and in short supply. And given that their basic design hasn’t changed much for about a century, they could use an upgrade.  As the world races to meet rising electricity demand from…
Broadcom Teams with Four Wall Street Giants to Complete $63 Billion AI Chip Financing; Anthropic Uses Debt Instead of Equity to Lock In Independent Compute Channel
Broadcom and four major financial institutions completed a $63 billion financing commitment through a newly established SPV to purchase Broadcom AI accelerators and data center networking equipment for lease to Anthropic. The transaction pairs first- and second-lien debt with Broadcom residual-value support and coincides with Anthropic’s Nasdaq S-1 filing, highlighting the financialization of AI compute.
Microsoft Opens Voluntary Buyouts to 60,000 Employees: AI Eats Into Headcount Budgets as Tech Giants Enter an Era of Systemic Restructuring
Microsoft has offered voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees, or 27% of its workforce, as soaring AI infrastructure spending reshapes its cost structure and organizational priorities. The move reflects a broader shift among tech giants toward proactive, AI-driven workforce restructuring rather than layoffs triggered only by downturns.
TC
How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant
Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.
TC
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing
An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free Chinese AI.
OpenAI Model Solves Three Major Mathematical Problems on the Same Day, Verification Mechanism Sparks Academic Discussion
OpenAI announced that its internal model recently completed three scientific discoveries in computer science, mathematics, and physics on the same day, including disproving the exponential time hypothesis, solving the Kakeya conjecture and the local smoothness conjecture, and providing a rigorous mathematical proof of the existence of Yang-Mills quantum field theory. The verification mechanism has become a focal point of academic discussion.
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Why Anthropic’s IPO Prospectus Is Missing So Many Key Figures
Anthropic’s S-1 filing is hundreds of pages long—and it leaves out quite a few financial details. “Anthropic owes investors more information,” one analyst tells WIRED.
GPT-6.1 Terra Officially Released: Agentic Tasks on Par with Flagship Astra, 3x Faster at One-Tenth the Price
OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Terra, priced at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, with agentic performance matching the flagship GPT-6 Astra while completing tasks more than 3x faster. The model is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock.
Anthropic Formally Files IPO Prospectus: $16.3 Billion in Half-Year Revenue, Valuation Could Reach $2 Trillion and Break the Record for the Largest IPO in History
Anthropic has filed an S-1 registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to list on Nasdaq under the ticker "ANT," disclosing $16.3 billion in first-half 2026 revenue and a potential valuation of $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion. The filing also shows an $80.7 billion net loss driven mainly by non-cash items, rapid enterprise customer growth, and unusually candid risk disclosures.
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ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees
US robotics company stands by ICE deal as more than 300 employees warn of risk.
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Apple releases iOS and macOS 27.2 with new Siri AI features, new Music logo
Included is the ability to limit which applications Siri can directly access.
Claude Opus 4.7 Tops with 87.7 Points: 2026-10-27 Smoke Quick Test Data Brief
The 2026-10-27 YZ Index Smoke Quick Test covered 13 models, with Claude Opus 4.7 ranking first at 87.7 points. The daily small-sample results are intended as short-term monitoring signals rather than long-term conclusions.
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The Anthropic S-1 Filing Is Also an AI Doomsday Primer
Anthropic thinks “closing the loop” is the best path to AI triumph—and a recipe for “existential” threats to humanity.
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SpaceX locks in $40B GPU financing deal with Apollo
SpaceX has locked in a binding commitment for roughly $40 billion in financing to pay for AI chips and related data center equipment, the company disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday. In a statement, SpaceX called it the “largest committed GPU financing” ever.
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Anthropic’s IPO filing reveals its strategy for keeping enterprise customers hooked
Anthropic’s S-1 shows more than half of its $100,000-plus customers now use both the Claude Platform and a first-party app, a cross-selling playbook reminiscent of Amazon that’s making enterprise customers stickier.
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Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo
Investigators explain how highway thieves stole $100M in data center equipment.
MIT
Will the real Anthropic please stand up
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. After weeks of frenzied speculation, Anthropic has filed its IPO prospectus. The 335-page document (100 pages or so are focused on risks) lays out the company’s unique view of the technology it…