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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.

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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…

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The Download: everyday AI harms and the race to nuclear spaceflight

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Opinion: The focus on AI safety disasters ignores everyday harms —Sam Hiner, cofounder of the Young People’s Alliance, and Emma Leiken, executive director of the Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund at…

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Tesla gave up the EV crown. Now it wants to win the autonomy race.

Tesla hopes autonomy subscriptions can deliver the margins car sales cannot.

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Anthropic officially files for its public debut

Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI safety mission.

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Anthropic’s IPO Prospectus Reveals What’s Under the Hood

Anthropic on Monday filed documents ahead of a blockbuster IPO that offers insight into the company’s financials, risk factors, and views on the future of AI.

Anthropic Files S-1: $16.3 Billion in First-Half Revenue but an $80.7 Billion Net Loss

Anthropic has filed its S-1 to list on Nasdaq under the ticker "ANT," disclosing $16.3 billion in revenue and an $80.7 billion net loss for the first half of 2026, alongside $450 billion in future cloud compute commitments and a target valuation of roughly $2 trillion. The filing also writes the potential "real-world harm" of the Claude series into its legal risk disclosures.

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The focus on AI safety disasters ignores everyday harms

Consider what passes for success in technology policy. An AI company promises that its chatbot will not encourage suicide. A social media platform makes it more difficult for children to buy fentanyl. These are important protections, and they should have existed all along. But companies can clear these low bars while continuing to make products…

SK Telecom Releases AI Governance Report, Assigns Employee IDs to AI Agents

SK Telecom has published its first AI governance report and introduced an employee ID system for its AI agents. The framework covers supervision, performance evaluation, and lifecycle management, and has passed ISO/IEC 42001 certification for internal agent management.

Swedish Government Bans ChatGPT and Claude: A Data-Sovereignty-Driven AI Whitelist Era Begins

Sweden’s Government Offices have blocked ChatGPT and Claude on government computers while approving Microsoft Copilot, marking the first formal administrative whitelist for AI tools by a major Western democracy. The decision shifts the focus from model capability to contractual control over data flows and compliance infrastructure.