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Anthropic says it is 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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| Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: |
Elon Musk says “I will give one of my SpaceX shares to every kid in America” in 2027; at SpaceX's $146.03 Friday close, the gift would be valued at ~$10.5B — Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.
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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 …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: HomeView units sat in warehouses for months; Apple plans a November 6 store reset, likely for new Macs; iPhone Duo preorder mess could boost the 18 Pro — Also: The company is planning Nov. 6 retail store reset, indicating potential Mac release date.
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| New York Times: |
Analysis: 11K+ accounts on X, Bluesky, Discord, Telegram, and others made nearly 25K posts to unmask a Cornell sexual assault accuser, after she named seven men — After a former student named seven men in a lawsuit saying they had sexually assaulted her, a movement gained steam online to reveal her identity.
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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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| 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 … | 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) … | Reed Stevenson / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn agrees to acquire a 50% stake in Mitsubishi's automotive components unit for ~$727M; Mitsubishi will provide autonomous tech for Foxconn's EV platforms — Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. is paying ¥115 billion ($727 million) for a 50% stake in Mitsubishi Electric Corp.'s automotive-components unit …
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Q&A with Nvidia's Vera team on agentic AI driving CPU demands and forcing CPU design priority back to single-threaded performance over core counts, and more — NVIDIA's Vera CPU heralds a redefinition of computing architecture from a traditional, task-isolated paradigm to an orchestrated …
More: Digital Trends and BGR
| Caroline Haskins / Wired: |
How the data center industry courts kids amid a backlash: 11+ firms and groups hosting field trips since 2025, flag kits and cards for first graders, and more — Amid a wave of backlash, some industry-friendly groups are employing creative and time-tested strategies to woo the youth.| Financial Times: |
AI's ability to forecast extreme weather faces a major test in the coming months amid a historic El Niño, as some scientists question the tech's accuracy — The technology is being used to anticipate everything from forest fires to futures contracts. Some fear that's a mistake| Kevin Townsend / SecurityWeek: |
CyberSN: US cybersecurity job postings fell 26.4% YoY to a four-year low of ~236K roles from January to September; AI security engineer demand soared by 200%+ — CyberSN's Cybersecurity Jobs Report provides visibility into the US cybersecurity job market. It's a mixed bag.
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