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Risk report: Anthropic raises misalignment risk estimate from very low to low and says it doesn't plan to release a stronger internal model called “Model 2” — Anthropic does not plan to release an internal model that appears to be more powerful than top-of-the-line Mythos …
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| Echo Wang / Reuters: |
Sources: Anthropic projects 2028 revenue of ~$190B-$200B, vs. a revenue run rate of $47B in May, as bankers and investors price the company ahead of an IPO — As Anthropic prepares for what could be one of the biggest IPOs on record, Wall Street is looking further into the future …
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| Bloomberg: |
Docs: Anthropic told investors it generated $11.5B+ in revenue, with positive adjusted operating income, in Q2, up from $787M in Q2 2025 and $4.73B in Q1 2026 — Anthropic PBC is telling prospective investors its second-quarter revenue jumped at least 14-fold versus the same period a year ago …
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| Kate Rooney / CNBC: |
Source: OpenAI CFO told investors that enterprise business now generates more revenue than ChatGPT-led consumer business; enterprise customers grew 32% in July — At the end of a week of turmoil in OpenAI's C-suite, finance chief Sarah Friar held a meeting with investors on Friday … | Bloomberg: |
SpaceX closes its $60B acquisition of Cursor, two months after SpaceX formally announced it had agreed to acquire the startup — SpaceX has completed a $60 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence coding startup Cursor, a key part of Elon Musk's bid to gain ground on rivals Anthropic PBC and OpenAI.
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| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
BCG: enterprise users spent a total of $300M on quantum computing in 2025, outranking the combined spending of research labs and governments for the first time — Many companies are pouring millions into quantum computing programs to gain a competitive edge and prepare for future encryption threats| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
Dynatrace agrees to acquire Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, for $915M, including ~$815M in cash — Dynatrace acquired Arize, which specializes in AI observability and the AI development lifecycle, in a deal worth $915 million.
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| Reuters: |
Z.ai says GLM-5.3 scores 84.5% on CyberGym, vs. Mythos 5's 83.8%, and its most sensitive cybersecurity functions will only be available to verified users — Chinese AI startup Z.ai said on Friday its open-source GLM-5.3 model had neared Anthropic's restricted Mythos 5 in identifying software … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: PayPal is in talks to sell itself to a group including Stripe and Advent, which proposed paying $60.50/share in July; PayPal is seeking a higher price — The fintech startup and private-equity firm Advent offered to buy the struggling payments company in July| Giacomo Lee / SDxCentral: |
Point2 Technology, which develops RF-based data center interconnection tech, raised a $136M Series B from LB Investment, Arm, Maverick Silicon, and others — Data center interconnect disruptor Point2 Technology celebrates Series B success — AI data center interconnect specialist Point2 …
More: Business Wire, Seoul Economic Daily, FinSMEs, The Next Web, and VC News Daily
| Abhinaya Prabhu / Tech Funding News: |
SF-based Vals, which develops evaluations and benchmarks to test AI models on real-world tasks, raised a $40M Series A led by a16z at a $400M valuation — - Vals AI raised $40 million in a Series A round at a $400 million valuation. — Revenue has grown eightfold since 2025 … | @alibaba_qwen: |
Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding — We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! 🎉 ⚡ Qwen3.8-27B: - A native multimodal dense model. With just 27B parameters, it outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and shines in real-world coding & office workflows. - 262K native context, easily extendable to 1M
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| Financial Times: |
Effective altruism, hit by the SBF turmoil, is drawing record funding as Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs are set to mint new millionaires wedded to “effective giving” — Expected IPOs for Anthropic and OpenAI are set to mint a new generation of philanthropists wedded to ‘effective giving’| Michael Martina / Reuters: |
Source and letter: the US plans to tell 35 partner countries they'll be excluded from the US-led Pax Silica initiative if they also join China's rival framework — The U.S. is preparing to tell dozens of countries they must pick sides in the artificial intelligence race with China …
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| The Economic Times: |
Sources: Uber and Rapido discussed merging their India ride-hailing operations in May; talks collapsed after disagreements over the proposed deal's structure — Uber and Rapido discussed merging their India ride-hailing operations in May, sources told us. Talks collapsed after disagreements over the proposed deal's structure.| Fred Lambert / Electrek: |
Waymo receives approval from the California Public Utilities Commission to expand across 18 counties, including Sacramento and San Diego — Waymo says California regulators have signed off on the biggest expansion of its robotaxi service yet, covering 18 counties from Sonoma down to San Diego.
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