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September 29, 2026, 7:15 AM

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Echo Wang / Reuters:
IPO prospectus: Anthropic reports a net loss of $42B in 2025, with operating losses of $8B+; revenue grew 12x to ~$4.6B, ~25% of which came from two customers  —  Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization …
Reuters:
IPO filing: Anthropic's seven co-founders will initially have 50.1% of the total voting power through a new “Founder LLC” aimed at serving the common good  —  Anthropic has long positioned itself as the virtuous AI company.  An early look at its IPO filing shows how it is creating a new …
Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar during internal testing, after targeting an October release  —  Model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra was due to make its debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October  —  OpenAI is scrapping the release …
Bloomberg:
OpenAI apologizes for its AI models breaching Australian government websites, pledges cyber defense funding, and plans to form a task force as part of reforms  —  OpenAI on Tuesday apologized for its AI models breaching Australian government websites and promised to set up a new task force as part of reforms after the incident.
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Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
AMD agrees to acquire Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B in an all-stock deal expected to close by the end of 2026; Li will join AMD as EVP and chief scientist  —  Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. agreed to acquire World Labs for $8.2 billion, gaining an artificial intelligence startup founded …
Anthropic:
Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, saying it generates outputs 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 and costs up to 30% less per task, and plans to release Haiku 5.5 soon  —  Sonnet 5.5 is a faster, lower-cost complement to Claude Opus 5.5.  Where Opus 5.5 is built for complex work requiring careful judgment …
Artificial Analysis:
Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index: Sonnet 5.5 (max) ranks above GPT-6 Astra (max) and behind only Opus 5.5 (max) but has the highest token use of them all  —  With max effort, Sonnet 5.5 gains 18 points over Sonnet 5 and moves to #2 on the Intelligence Index, behind only Opus 5.5 (max).
New York Times:
Internal memo: the FBI says it is “operating under the premise” that a threat actor stole PII of all staff; ShinyHunters set a Tuesday deadline tied to demands  —  In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
OpenAI reopens sign-ups for its $200/month Pro tier while halving the API credits provided per dollar to encourage pay-per-use, and removes the five-hour cap  —  The 5-hour usage cap is gone for good: subscribers can spread their weekly allotment however they want.
Isabel O'Brien / CNBC:
Meta launches Muse for Small Business, integrating the AI agent with Asana, Zoom, Intuit, Box, Canva, Slack, and other apps, alongside its own ad accounts  —  Coming off the successful launch of its Muse AI agent, Meta is now pushing its new artificial intelligence service into the business world.
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Wall Street Journal:
Samsung commits $1B to AI infrastructure company Helix, adding to the $10B already secured when a KKR-led consortium including Nvidia established Helix in June  —  Helix expects to leverage Samsung's capabilities to support AI infrastructure development at scale
Danny Park / The Block:
Coinbase gets CFTC approval for Coinbase Clearing, completing its derivatives stack, letting it list, broker, and clear fully collateralized products in-house  —  This completes Coinbase's derivatives infrastructure, allowing it to list, broker, and clear fully collateralized products in-house.
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia launches the Open Agent Safety Platform, a reference design to stop AI agents from escaping sandboxes, with OpenShell for CPUs and Sentry for Nvidia DPUs  —  Nvidia is rolling out a new software platform to allow AI developers to set safeguards for agents and prevent them from breaking out of containment.

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