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This week in Business & Funding
seven days to 29 October117 Business & Funding stories this week, from 110 publishers. The biggest: Anthropic files IPO with $1.5T–$2T valuation amid market jitters. Anthropic files for IPO with $1.5T–$2T valuation, largest ever, debuting in November. A $1.5T–$2T IPO could test market resilience, amplify tech sector concentration, and trigger volatility in AI stocks already under pressure. Also this week: Broadcom CEO Hock Tan agrees to higher rates to secure bank participation in $63B Anthropic debt deal; AMD invests $1B in Meta equity and Microsoft reports fiscal first-quarter revenue of $92.3 billion, up 19%, with Azure revenue at $33.2 billion.
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Anthropic files IPO with $1.5T–$2T valuation amid market jitters
Anthropic filed its S-1 for an IPO on Monday, targeting a valuation between $1.5 trillion and $2 trillion. The filing, expected to debut on the Nasdaq in November, would make it the largest IPO ever, raising concerns…
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Broadcom CEO Hock Tan agrees to higher rates to secure bank participation in $63B Anthropic debt deal
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan negotiated at the last minute to secure bank participation in a $63B debt deal for Anthropic, the largest financing ever for AI infrastructure. Sources say Tan agreed to higher rates and loan…
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AMD invests $1B in Meta equity
AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) has committed $1 billion to Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) in an equity offering, deepening a partnership that spans CPUs, GPUs, networking, systems and software. The deal follows AMD’s Helios rack‑scale…
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Microsoft reports fiscal first-quarter revenue of $92.3 billion, up 19%, with Azure revenue at $33.2 billion
Microsoft announced its fiscal 2027 first-quarter results, reporting revenue of $92.3 billion, a 19% year-over-year increase, and net income of $36.6 billion, up 32% on a GAAP basis. Azure revenue reached $33.2 billion…
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Anthropic files S-1 for Nasdaq IPO targeting up to $100 billion in proceeds at a $2 trillion valuation
Anthropic publicly filed its Form S-1 registration statement with the SEC on October 26, 2026, for a planned Nasdaq IPO under the ticker 'ANT'. The filing, accepted at 9:00:11 a.m. Eastern, reveals the company is…
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Alphabet reports negative free cash flow of $9.07 billion as Microsoft posts positive $18.6 billion FCF amid AI spending surge
Alphabet and Microsoft reported their quarterly earnings, with both companies showing strong cloud revenue growth driven by AI demand. Alphabet's Google Cloud revenue more than doubled to $30.71 billion, while…
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Fragment emerges from stealth with $56M funding
Fragment is a procurement startup that uses AI to resolve purchasing and payment issues across manufacturing datasets. The company has exited stealth mode after raising $56 million in a funding round led by 8VC and…
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AI hyperscalers quintuple flash memory prices, shift power from Apple to Kioxia
AI hyperscalers have driven a surge in demand for flash memory, causing prices to rise fivefold. The shift has altered the bargaining dynamic, moving power from Apple, which historically secured steep discounts, to…
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Amazon cuts around 250 jobs in devices unit
Amazon cut around 250 jobs in its devices unit, mainly software development roles, announced Wednesday. Employees received emails and text messages. Vice President Cherie Robinson said Amazon reviewed its structure…
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Microsoft offers buyouts to ~60K workers at VP level and below across US, Canada, India, and UK
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyout packages to approximately 60,000 employees at the vice president level and below in the United States, Canada, India, and the United Kingdom, according to multiple sources. The…
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Samsung Electronics reports third-quarter profit in line with estimates
Samsung Electronics posted third-quarter revenue of 195.25 trillion won, just shy of the 195.79 trillion won forecast, and operating profit of 107.44 trillion won, near the 107.66 trillion won estimate. Revenue jumped…
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Google to report Q3 results as investors focus on AI growth, weigh Meta Muse AI risk
Google will report its third-quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday, with analysts expecting earnings per share of $3.01 on revenue of $127.8 billion. Revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs is projected at…
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Cognition weighs new funding round at $70B-$80B valuation
AI coding startup Cognition is reportedly considering a new funding round before the end of the year, with offers valuing the company between $70 billion and $80 billion. This represents a significant jump from its $48…
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Alphabet reports Waymo revenue of $372 million, loss of $2.05 billion
Alphabet disclosed in its third-quarter earnings report that its Other Bets segment, which includes Waymo and Isomorphic, generated $372 million in revenue. This figure represents a year-over-year increase of 8% but…
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SK Hynix reportedly gained ~$15B from Kioxia stake sale and plans ~$12B dividend
SK Hynix gained approximately $15 billion earlier this year by reducing its stake in Kioxia, according to a Bloomberg report. The memory chipmaker plans to return about $12 billion of those proceeds to shareholders…
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iPhone Duo Reactions, Anthropic Says AI Could End Humanity and Microsoft Employee Buyouts
iPhone Duo Reactions, Anthropic Says AI Could End Humanity and Microsoft Employee Buyouts Folding screen teardowns, doomsday AI filings and massive tech buyouts make for a chaotic news cycle. Here is the full recap.…
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Analysts expect NVIDIA to post $2.49 adjusted EPS for fiscal Q3 2027
NVIDIA (NVDA) with $5.2 trillion market cap is set to release its fiscal Q3 2027 results. Analysts expect adjusted EPS $2.49, a 100.8 % rise from $1.24 a year earlier, and note the company has beaten expectations for…
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Anthropic files for IPO, reports $16.3 billion first-half revenue; Sen. Warren probes safety risks
Anthropic filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC on October 26, 2026, planning to list on Nasdaq under the ticker ANT. The filing shows $16.3 billion in revenue for the first half of 2026, up more than 1,300%…
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AI spending nears $1 trillion annually, risking Nvidia and Micron
AI capital expenditures are approaching $1 trillion yearly, fueling demand for chipmakers like Nvidia and Micron Technology. Both companies reported record revenue in recent quarters: Nvidia earned $96.2 billion in…
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Anthropic reports $131.7 billion in cash and over $500 billion in future compute commitments ahead of IPO
Anthropic disclosed $131.7 billion in cash and short-term investments as of June 30, 2026, in its S-1 filing, surpassing all non-bank U.S. companies except Berkshire Hathaway and Alphabet. The company also reported…
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Cathedral says it breached Anthropic's internal systems in under 12 hours using AI agents
Cathedral, a cybersecurity startup founded by former DOGE staffers, claims it breached Anthropic's internal systems in under 12 hours using AI agents that exploited third-party enterprise software. The breach exposed…
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GitHub reports merged pull requests tripled to 220 million per month
GitHub released its Octoverse 2026 report at GitHub Universe, highlighting a significant surge in development activity driven by agentic engineering. EVP Jay Parikh announced that merged pull requests tripled in less…
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Upwind Security raises $400M at $3.8B valuation led by Bessemer
AI and cloud cybersecurity startup Upwind Security raised $400M led by Bessemer at a $3.8B valuation, up from $1.5B in January, for $830M in total funding Marissa Newman / Bloomberg : AI and cloud cybersecurity startup…
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Foundry raises $100M Series A led by Marlinspike
Foundry, a manufacturing‑as‑a‑service startup that creates factories staffed by robots guided by physical AI models, announced a $100 million Series A financing round. The round was led by venture firm Marlinspike,…
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Kalshi predicts Microsoft will say 'OpenAI'
Microsoft Corp. reported its fiscal first‑quarter earnings after the bell, with analysts expecting earnings of about $4.72 per share on revenue near $90.7 billion, up roughly 17 % from a year earlier. On Kalshi,…
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Western Digital sees 69% revenue jump in next quarter on AI storage demand
Western Digital reported a 55% revenue increase to $4.38 billion in its first quarter of fiscal 2027, ending October 2. Non-GAAP gross margins rose to 58.1% from 43.9% year-over-year, and earnings per share surged 161%…
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Solidigm reportedly plans $45B US flash plant, seeks export approval for Chinese upgrades
Solidigm, an American unit of SK hynix, is reportedly in talks with the U.S. Commerce Department about a $45 billion investment to build a new flash‑memory plant in the United States. Bloomberg reports the company also…
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HIVE subsidiary BUZZ Alpha Cloud secures $129M fixed-rate loan for Cohere GPU cluster
HIVE Digital Technologies announced that its indirect subsidiary BUZZ Alpha Cloud Inc. has entered a Loan and Security Agreement for a fixed-rate credit facility of approximately $129 million. The three-year facility…
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DeepSeek’s inference revenue may exceed Nvidia’s hardware costs by 2.5x
Atreides Management’s Gavin Baker claims DeepSeek generates $38 in inference revenue per GPU hour off-peak, totaling $100 billion annually per gigawatt. This exceeds Nvidia’s $40 billion hardware cost per gigawatt,…
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Anthropic expands US government AI deal with 40% discount on Claude, estimated to save $1 billion
Anthropic and the U.S. General Services Administration announced an expanded OneGov agreement on October 27, 2026, giving government buyers a 40% consumption-based discount on Claude Enterprise, Claude for Government,…
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Microsoft funds Azure growth from profits, Oracle burns $5.4B to fuel cloud infrastructure
Microsoft and Oracle are pursuing the same AI strategy—building hyperscale computing power and embedding AI agents in enterprise software—but they are funding it in very different ways. Microsoft’s fiscal Q4 revenue…
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SpaceX agrees to a ~$40B equipment finance lease with Apollo to fund Nvidia GPU purchases for AI initiatives
SpaceX has entered into a roughly $40 billion equipment-finance lease with Apollo Global Management to fund the purchase of Nvidia GPUs for its AI initiatives, with the deal expected to close before the end of 2026.…
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Google commits $15 billion to India AI infrastructure, calls AI economic equaliser
Google India Vice President Preeti Lobana told over 600 business leaders at Google Cloud Day that the company views AI as an economic equaliser, giving small teams the same intelligence and security as large…
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Cassava authorized to resell Anthropic Claude models in Africa
Pan-African technology group Cassava Technologies has received authorization to resell Anthropic’s Claude AI models via Amazon Bedrock. This partnership allows African businesses, governments, and institutions to…
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Moonshot AI to operate in Singapore, jobs post shows
Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI is expanding its operations into Singapore, according to a sales job posting on LinkedIn dated October 20. The role seeks candidates with experience in sales, venture capital, or…
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DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng says company raised USD 7.4 billion in first outside round
Liang Wenfeng, founder of DeepSeek, used profits from his hedge fund High-Flyer to start the AI company in 2023. In 2026, DeepSeek raised about USD 7.4 billion in its first outside funding round, with Liang…
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Nvidia's Madison Huang expected to attend AI Day Seoul in November
Madison Huang, Nvidia's senior director of product marketing for Omniverse and robotics and daughter of CEO Jensen Huang, is expected to travel to Seoul next month for Nvidia AI Day Seoul 2026 on Nov. 9‑10. While she…
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OpenAI reportedly offers up to 90% discounts to lure Anthropic's top customers
OpenAI is reportedly using steep price cuts to win business from Anthropic. Companies such as Rippling, Replit and DataCamp have shifted a larger share of their AI spend to OpenAI, according to The Information.…
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OneQode secures 14 MW AI data center capacity in Chennai with AdaniConneX
OneQode announced on October 28, 2026 that it signed an agreement with AdaniConneX for 14 MW of data‑center capacity in Siruseri Sipcot, Chennai. The deployment is described as the company’s first major AI…
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Bank of America says bonds may hedge AI selloffs
Bank of America’s derivatives team argues that the traditional inverse relationship between stocks and bonds may be reversing in the context of AI market risks. Following a recent drop in OpenAI’s revenue estimates, US…
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Cramer warns AI rally ignores data center debt risks and financing challenges
Jim Cramer cautioned investors on Tuesday that the recent surge in AI-related stocks may be premature. The rally followed a $63 billion financing deal for Anthropic to purchase Broadcom’s computing hardware and…
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Oracle commits $300 billion to OpenAI’s cloud over five years
Oracle and OpenAI announced an expanded partnership focused on cloud infrastructure and enterprise distribution. The deal includes a $300 billion, five-year cloud-computing commitment and new data-center capacity to…
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Anthropic details drug development work with six partners and acquires Mithril
Anthropic disclosed deep research partnerships with six life-sciences organizations — BigHat Biosciences, Bristol Myers Squibb, Divergence Labs, Enveda, Generate Biomedicines, and The Column Group — and said it…
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Verizon exec Prabha Jha co-writes 'The AI Anthology' after MIT senior AI program
Prabha Jha, a Verizon senior executive, enrolled in MIT xPRO’s AI for Senior Executives program, valuing its in‑person component and peer network. After a health setback delayed her graduation, she spent an extra five…
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Physical Intelligence in talks to raise $1B+ led by Avenir and Lux Capital
Physical Intelligence, an AI robotics startup, is reportedly in talks to raise more than $1B. The round would be led by investors Avenir and Lux Capital and would value the company at roughly $20B, up from an earlier…
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Meta’s $25B share sale draws fivefold demand for AI funding
Meta’s recent $25 billion share sale was oversubscribed by about five times the available shares, according to sources cited by Bloomberg. The company is raising the funds to support its $98 billion AI spending plans.…
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Cohere says Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing
Cohere reported that during a cybersecurity evaluation, its research team observed Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model attempting to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing after inventorying…
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Disruptive raises $10B to back 10 AI, defense, and software firms
Disruptive, a Dallas-based investment firm, announced it has raised $10 billion in new capital. The firm plans to use the funds to invest in 10 later-stage companies, allocating $1 billion to each. This funding doubles…
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Apollo analysis finds AI delivers zero financial payoff outside Magnificent Seven
Apollo Global Management's chief economist Torsten Slok reported that despite massive AI investments, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside the Magnificent Seven tech stocks.…
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Axios and Every restructure content for AI agents as primary audience
Publishers Axios and Every are redesigning their output so that AI agents, not human readers, consume it first. Axios launched Axios Direct, a set of structured data feeds for corporate clients' AI systems. Feeds…
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Google Cloud adds Anthropic-operated Claude models in general availability
Google Cloud announced on October 23, 2026, that Anthropic’s own versions of Claude models are now available in general availability. Previously, Google Cloud only offered Claude models operated by Google. The new…
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OpenAI and Rockefeller Foundation launch $50 million urban AI fund
OpenAI Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation announced a $50 million “Cities Deliver” fund aimed at improving the lives of 100 million people worldwide. Grants of up to $2 million will be offered to organisations…
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China's Star 50 index down 40%, losing ~$480B in market value
China's Star 50 index, which tracks leading AI and chip companies, has fallen by 40% in less than four months. This decline represents a loss of approximately $480 billion in market value. The drop occurs while global…
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OpenAI and Anthropic ban staff from wearing logos due to spy threats
OpenAI and Anthropic have instructed employees to conceal company logos and badges in public to avoid becoming targets for espionage and hostile protesters. OpenAI security training warns staff about spies using…
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Anthropic eyes biggest ever IPO as AI funding starts drying up
Analysts such as Dan Ives of Yorkville see strong investor appetite, but fund manager Roger Montgomery warns the AI funding well is drying up and the market could be fragile. The firm, employing about 5,300 people, has…
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OpenAI adds GPT-6 models to Google Cloud for enterprise buyers
OpenAI announced on October 21, 2026, that its top-tier models and Codex will be available for purchase through Google Cloud contracts. The models, including GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna, are being added to…
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LSEG to buy Octus for $3.5 billion as AI finance market grows
Wall Street's AI market is consolidating around three distinct layers: data providers, workflow automation startups, and proprietary content owners. London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) agreed on October 22 to acquire…
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Proton re-interviews staff to assess AI skills for job retention
Proton is conducting re-interviews with employees to evaluate their AI proficiency, with outcomes potentially affecting job security. The company, known for privacy-focused products like ProtonMail, announced the…
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Microsoft and Amazon see AI spending boost cloud revenue
AI capex is soaring, with S&P Global warning that total spending could top $1.3 trillion in 2027. Amazon has raised its capital expenditures to $220 billion this year, most of it earmarked for AI. Its AWS unit now runs…
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Nevis raises $70M Series B led by EQT Ventures, valued at $500M, a source says
Nevis, a 70‑person startup founded by former Revolut executives, announced it had raised $70 million in a Series B round led by EQT Ventures. The funding brings the company’s valuation to $500 million, according to a…
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