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Anthropic says it's committing 5% of its shares to a Public Benefit Fund, for a total of ~20% with co-founder and staff pledges, plus 2% per 50% valuation rise — Today, we're committing a portion of Anthropic's shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new entity with a structure that increases the stake as the company grows.
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| Phoebe Liu / The Information: |
Sources: industry execs expect only 7-10 of hundreds of neoclouds to survive, as Nvidia supports them with easier credit terms, site finding, and $20B in leases — How many young AI cloud providers can the market, and Nvidia, support? — That's one of the big questions after a week … | Bailey Lipschultz / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nscale faces investor pushback on its ~$30B IPO valuation, with some urging a lower valuation of $16B to $19B, as Microsoft exits a UK data center deal — Nscale Ltd. is facing opposition to the valuation target it's pursuing in its initial public offering, according to people familiar …
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| James Titcomb / Telegraph: |
Microsoft cancels its deal to be the anchor tenant and rent 23K Nvidia AI chips at Nscale's Essex, UK, data center, which may not get grid power until the 2030s — US tech giant pulls the plug on Nscale deal in threat to multibillion-dollar listing — Microsoft has pulled …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: HomeView units sat in warehouses for months; Apple plans a Nov. 6 store reset, likely for new Macs; iPhone Duo preorder mess could boost 18 Pro sales — Also: The company is planning Nov. 6 retail store reset, indicating potential Mac release date.
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| Efosa Udinmwen / TechRadar: |
Intel unveils its GPU D-series for data centers, featuring up to 480GB of LPDDR5X memory, an unusually large capacity to support demanding inference workloads — Intel GPU D-series uses laptop LPDDR5X with 480GB memory — Intel's GPU D-series sets a new GPU memory record with 480GB of LPDDR5X
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| Zack Abrams / The Block: |
Sam Altman's World launches a World ID verification suite for banks, bundling tools to verify human and agent identities, its first industry-specific offering — The identity project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman named Bain Capital and VanEck Funds among its design partners but did not name … | Kyu-Seok Shim / Reuters: |
Sources: Nvidia asked Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron to make base dies for its custom NVHBM memory on TSMC's 3nm process; Samsung agreed, its first use of TSMC — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) will use TSMC's (2330.TW) 3-nanometre process to produce base dies for Nvidia's (NVDA.O) …
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| Nick Lichtenberg / Fortune: |
SF-based home insurer Stand, which uses digital twins of homes to price wildfire risk and insures $10B+ of property, raised a $70M Series C at a $1B valuation — Matt DiStefano shares his screen and rotates a gray 3D model of a California neighborhood. He zooms in on one house and overlays a heat map.
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| Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media: |
Stripe Link data shows agentic transactions increased by 38x and volume of payments by 20x in September, with retail leading in both, and a ~$100 average spend — Every time a new AI assistant tool launches, seemingly every week, it announces it's handling checkout and payments through Stripe's tool, Link.| Wall Street Journal: |
Analysis: 795 accounts funded by ADI Predictstreet's own fee-collecting wallet drove 99% of the FIFA-partnered prediction market's activity since late August — ADI Predictstreet, backed by Abu Dhabi's royal family, paid close to $150 million for advertising rights during the World Cup
LinkedIn: Joshua Gupta
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Abby Care, which runs a clinically led, AI-powered platform to train and certify family caregivers, raised an $82M Series C led by Transformation Capital — As a kid, Havi Nguyen sometimes missed school to translate at doctor's appointments, and was managing Medicaid paperwork for her family, who had recently immigrated from Vietnam.
More: Abby Care and Inc
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| Aaron Kirchfeld / Financial Times: |
Europe's three biggest industrial companies are cashing in on the AI boom, as Schneider and Siemens expand further into software, while ABB focuses on equipment — Schneider Electric and Siemens move further into software as rival ABB bets on physical equipment
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Allium: stablecoin payments rose 45% YoY to $482B YTD through September 30, with transactions up 71% to 1.04B, while circulating supply grew just 0.4% — Stablecoin supply has barely budged this year, but the digital dollars already in circulation are doing more work in payments …
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| Financial Times: |
RegLayer: 47+ large US data center projects were delayed, withdrawn, or blocked in 2026; Bernstein says ~35% of the planned US data center pipeline is credible — A vast bet on the future of the technology is running into the unforgiving economics of the physical world| New York Times: |
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